Uh-oh, the 1% got their feelings hurt

What's that sound? It's getting closer! Why, it's the WAAAAAAAAAAHmbulance again!

In conservaworld, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and even the popular Occupy revolution hasn't yet penetrated the Far Right's bulky skulls. Recently, a seemingly new right-wing plen-T-plaint emerged in response to a speech by President Obama about how businesses are built. Obama's speech was quoted out of context by the Mitt Romney campaign, as anyone who listened to it knows, but the 1% hasn't abandoned their response: They continue to whine that Obama is out of step with business owners.

The media-fueled hullabaloo hasn't dented public support for Obama, but that seems to be lost on the embattled Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. Brown - a Tea Party fave - has already run America's most race-baiting electoral campaign in years (a spirit of bigotry fanned by the far-right Boston Herald), and now he's falling flat on economic issues as well. Brown is trying to make hay over challenger Elizabeth Warren's statement that "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own."

Warren is right, of course. We've all heard the inspiring stories of self-made millionaires, but it's customers who generate their wealth. I've dabbled in small business, and I know that without customers, a business fails.

Pundits gloat of the attention Scott Brown is receiving and they're hyping this meme. They truly think he's Mensa material for attacking Warren on this. But it's Brown, Romney, and their band of sycophants who are out of touch. The only people offended by the statements of Obama and Warren are the Wall Street 1%. Who cares if you can't win the support of the 1%, as long as you get more of the 99% behind you with remarks like this? I'm glad Warren and Obama said what they said - regardless of outcome.

This is nothing but a case of hurt fee-fees among the very wealthy. That's all it is. Waaaaah waaaaah waaaaah. Those meanies Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama made a rich person cry, so America has to listen to it for the next 4 months.

I've got news for the right-wing intelligentsia: Nobody but the 1% cares. Their talking point isn't new though. I was forced to listen to the Far Right's shit-caked little mouths way back in high school 25 years ago. One of the favorite themes harped on by these entitled brats was their claim that everybody except themselves was a bunch of lazy, unsophisticated scamps who refused to work. They espoused the belief that if they got rich off their daddy's money, it was because they earned it. I guess it's nice for spoiled babies to be able to take solace in the idea that somebody else will take care of them their whole lives and they'll never have to do any real work for it.

The right-wingers' class warfare is fool's gold for them - especially now. That they pound this meme is proof of their inability to understand or adjust to what Americans today think. Inability to adapt to changing situations has been described as an Achilles' heel of dictatorial systems. If the right-wingers' arrogance ends well for them, I'll eat my hat.