Central California newspapers sometimes publish a column written by Dan Walters. I seldom read it. Walters is basically a servant of money grubbers, men (mostly) who have dedicated their lives to acquiring so much money that it eventually becomes a meaningless number in the cloud. They waste their entire lives on greed and then die.
What interests me is that white-wing money grubbers and their parasites invariably talk of themselves as political centrists. Centrists? Dan Walters considers himself a centrist and a defender of centrism. He's worried that in California (which has one mildly progressive party, one dead party and many independent voters) money grubbers or "centrists" are under-represented.
Beneath this position lurks the weird assumption that the central goal of a centrist majority of Americans is to get rich. The grubbers who do get rich (according to this theory) are those who have been especially blessed by Mother Nature with smarts or maybe blessed by Jesus Himself.
Did Jesus devote his life to getting rich?
My experience is that I've known maybe 300 people, and perhaps three of them set out to get rich. Money grubbers are a tiny minority, not central in any sense and about as tolerable as boys vice principals. Grubbers and vice principals serve a function, but who wants to smoke a joint with one?
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