"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
Yes, make no mistake about it, not for a second, this is the first election in a generation, perhaps in the history of this nation, between the haves and the have-nots. That is just what it is.
In this corner, the defending champion, born to a single mother, of mixed race, who worked hard to gain entrance to Harvard Law School, where he was editor of its prestigious Harvard Law Review. Then back to the community where he became a self-styled "community organizer," which was later maligned by his opponents, then into local and state-wide government. Born with little or nothing, of modest means, he has attained much. He has not.
And, in the other corner, the challenger, born to a father who was the Governor or Michigan, who matriculated in boarding school, notoriously pinning down and cutting the long hair off of a homosexual class mate, who then also ventured to Harvard, and then Wall Street. His money is offshore, purportedly in a "blind trust," and it is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions, yet he only pays a 15% tax rate on his income. Born from the governor's mansion and using his family capital to succeed on Wall Street, he has.
And the electorate, brought to you for your amusement, also falls into the haves and the have-nots. Make no mistake about it, the systemic destruction of the Middle Class over the past three decades has left a chasm in the heart of America. That wunderkind of retirement planning - the 401k - has whisked off the extra savings of millions upon millions of Americans now for decades. What little they could set aside to escape the Iron Law of Wages they so willingly donated to Wall Street, instead of developing their own businesses on Main Street, or even investing in real estate.
Only the iniquitous fact of the matter is that the have-nots in the electorate only serve to support their own systemic destruction and enslavement. When confronted with high crimes and misdemeanors waged by the monied classes -- the haves -- the poor have-nots respond with a fusillade of grievances ranging from complaints about the legalization of abortion to bizarre conspiracy theories about the Black President. It is the perfect system -- the slavers have enslaved the have-nots using nothing more than the Slave Morality (that's Nietzsche) and its penchant for small-minded "family values" at the expense of its own welfare.
