The wealthy who voted for Obama can be divided into three groups: those who got their wealth quickly and easily through the internet bubble (Yahoo, google, etc), entertainment types, and those who inherited wealth. People who earned their wealth slowly, by building a business, suffering failure and working long hours to make it happen tended not to vote for Obama. There is a distortion in the minds of the first three groups about wealth. They, and the hangers on who surround them, believe that wealth is easily achieved, and have no clue how hard others work to build wealth.
Think of the yahoo and google founders: billionaires after a year or two in business, while they are still pimply faced twenty somethings. Think of the Hollywood starlet, a smashing success by age 22 and purchasing mega mansions in Beverly Hills. And the socialites? The wealth has always been there. They never had to work for it.
Compare that to a small businessman, who starts a chain of auto parts stores, or a restaurant, or a doctor who builds a thriving practice. These people all had to work for years before they got to taste the fruits of their labors. They understand that wealth takes time and hard work to build. And that it is tenuous, and can evaporate with wrong decisions.
Add to the ‘easy wealth’ crowd those who get ahead by currying favor with the powerful and you have your elite Obama voters. Think academics, NGO types, community organizers, and government bureaucrats, and all the lobbyist, wall street, near government ilk.
They think they got where they are because there is something special about them. And that they need to be in charge of other people’s lives, in order to form a better society. They want to tell us how much money is enough for us to make, what to eat, what to say (PC), what light bulbs to put in our homes, what cars to drive, and even what to think. For our own good, don’t you see.
The problem with all those people is they have no sense of human nature. The laws of reward and punishment have been distorted in their experience and so they don’t take them into account when planning their ideal of a perfect society. Thus, their ideals (or manipulations, for the cynical among you) are destined to total failure. This occurs when people respond to rewards and incentives that the elite haven’t taken into account and fail to respond to their government dictates.
Their grand experiment will not end well.
