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The rich are different than you and me

Polling proves it, just check out this article on Kos.

Now, what is interesting about this is that on almost every question, the rich truly are different from you and me (considering you and me collectively). It would not be a stretch to say that they are more selfish and self-centered, with all that leavened by a smidgen of entitlement. Putting the causation question aside, there is something else about this poll that is quite striking. Public policy in this country closely tracks the opinion of the very rich, and where it doesn’t presently precisely align, the general drift is toward their preferences. Funny, that, as it seems inexplicable that in the world’s greatest democracy (we are, aren’t we?) the public policy preferences of the few should consistently trump the preferences of the many. After all, as Justice Kennedy has told us, there is absolutely no evidence that money is a corrupting influence in politics. One can only conclude that the policy preferences of the rich have been adopted because they are so self evidently the right positions, even if so many of them don’t work in practice.

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