[quote=Brutus]Warren is a Harvard lawyer, an elitist that lives in a two million dollar mansion, makes $400,000 a year from teaching one class and, like most Harvard lawyers, thinks she’s the smartest person in any room. She’s also despises capitalism in all its forms which makes her a HYPOCRITE, too.
She will lose, because NOBODY likes Harvard lawyers, even other Harvard lawyers. If it wasn’t for liberal Hollywood movie-stars, Harvard lawyers would be the most obnoxious, smarmy, know-it-all, jerks on the planet.
They still have a way to go to outdo Tim Robbins and Danny Glover, though.[/quote]
LoL! Well, this is all true, I am afraid. Warren may be better than many alternatives, but it is true that she lives deep inside the world of the elite and wealthy. Her dinner table guests don’t include too many of the “ordinary people”. She happens to wear the Democrat label and sings those tunes, but that’s kind of mandatory if you operate at a senior level in academia. If she gains any power, it will be interesting to see if she causes a deep recession in the wealthy enclaves of Manhattan, Greenwich, The Hamptons, and the leafy environs around her own Harvard. (Most of these areas are Democratic, BTW. This is a bipartisan problem.)
I seriously doubt Warren would move against her own people. Instead, the unwashed masses will be bought off with bright cheap baubles, or perhaps from money taken from those outside the elite axis. Certain groups are off-limits to attack from either Republicans or Democrats, and the power axis elite of Washington DC and Wall Street have guaranteed bipartisan immunity. When Bernanke replaced Greenspan, and Summers/Geithner replaced Paulson, Blankfein and Dimon etc didn’t worry.
What was interesting about the early days of the Tea Party was how the supporters opposed the Wall Street bailouts, above all else. That was quickly turned by the establishment into a traditional and diffuse radical right wing movement. Now the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused people, once again, on the way in which the establishment – in Wall Street and Washington DC – has feathered its own nest at the expense of the rest of the country. However, the establishment will try very hard to diffuse that focus, and turn the movement into a mirror image of the current tea party, but on the left. It will simply become the left wing of the Democratic party. That way, Wall Street and Washington DC escapes the haircut the rest of the country is experiencing.
Oh, and all that doesn’t mean I can’t admire Warren’s consumerist, populist, comments. I admired Obama’s also – another elite Harvard lawyer- before he was elected. Then he appointed Summers and Geithner, and re-appointed Bernanke, and supported their policies designed to protect a very elite slice of America. I am just alert to the notion that, when the chips are down, the elite will find ways to put themselves first.
