No matter how hard the Clinton family tries to fit in with the emerging aristocracy, they will always be regarded as "trailer trash" by these same elites:
If one sets aside the media frenzy and the security mobilization, there were doubtless dozens of weddings this summer in the greater New York area that were as expensive, and some much more so. Likewise, for some in this super-rich layer, the $3.8 million Fifth Avenue condo for the newlyweds would be regarded as no more than a “starter home.”
There was not the slightest critical commentary in the media about such lavish expenditure under conditions of deepening economic and social misery for the society as a whole. Nor did any columnist suggest that such a display was inappropriate amid the official declarations that the United States is entering an era of austerity and “sacrifice”—for the common people, of course, those who depend on Social Security, Medicare, public schools and other social services.
Tens of millions of working people live in extreme financial distress and uncertainty, faced with the threat of layoff, utility shutoff, foreclosure or eviction. The official unemployment rate is 10 percent, while the real rate is closer to 20 percent. Fifty million have no health insurance. The majority of working class families live from paycheck to paycheck.
But so isolated is the ruling elite from these realities that even experienced political operatives like the Clintons have become completely insensitive to the grotesque disparity between their conditions of life and those of the vast majority.
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