The Permanent Anger Class

What would satisfy the Super Rich? What is it they want?

"Everything."

Civilization started about 7,000 years ago in China and the Middle East. In the last 3% of that 7,000 years, wealthy white men won the right to vote, followed by the remaining white men, then black men, then women. Ordinary people became the owners of land, not just tenants of a king or nation state. Social security and universal medical care were pioneered in Europe. Today gay people are winning equal rights in the United States.

These gains by ordinary people constitute a threat to the Rich owning everything. To reverse the gains, the Rich don't express anger--they fund the mobilization of a permanent Anger Class to express vulgar fears and rage for them.

On television we watch Tea Party paranoids attacking the Democrats and centrist Republicans of Nambypambytown. Teabaggers are stirred to act by Republican leaders like the former Speaker of the House who recently claimed that Obama was channeling his long dead Kenyan father (whom he barely knew) and taking revenge for the way the British had treated black Africans. No charge is too idiotic. There is little that is new in this--it's American politics as usual.

Presidents are typically attacked viciously. The Rich funded an attempt to use the Anger Class to take the government from FDR by force. Truman was labeled a pinko traitor. Eisenhower was called a communist. JFK supposedly intended to build a tunnel under the Atlantic so he could get his orders directly from the Pope. The Clintons murdered Vince Foster, the Republicans said.

The claims that President Obama was born in Kenya or that he is a Muslim fit the same pattern. The Super Rich fund movements designed to stir up the Anger Class whenever a Democrat or centrist Republican gets elected President.

Consider the history of the Liberty League and the John Birch Society. There will always be 2% or 3% of the public with heads of knuckle. With a little planning and a lot of cash, the Anger Class can be set in motion by the Super Rich, and they will gather friends and allies as they storm ahead.

The Super Rich have not gone after President Obama because his father was black, although that adds a tool useful for their purposes. The Super Rich aren't racists--they hire walking tubes of meat to do the racism. The Super Rich probably like Obama, but he has slowed their acquisitions a bit. From their perspective, the Democrats have to go in November.

What would satisfy the Super Rich? What is it they want?

"Everything."