Thanks to Nonstop Brainwashing

of the masses by the likes of Fox "News" and people's unfathomable identification with the rich, especially those obscenely rich, they don't realize just how badly they have been screwed over.

Washington, of course, is at the heart of the screwing over. These politicians in both political parties don't even hide their contempt for the voters.

And note it is the one-tenth of the top one percent who are taking it ALL. And probably in the end it is no more than a few hundred families and individuals who are taking it ALL.

These people are actually parasites--the poor are not the parasites.

Considering the first factor, it is obvious that people have become beaten down psychologically and financially. A report in the Guardian titled, “Anxiety keeps the super-rich safe from middle-class rage,” suggests that people are so desperate to hold onto what they have that they are too busy looking down to look up: “As psychologists will tell you, fear of loss is more powerful than the prospect of gain. The struggling middle classes look down more anxiously than they look up, particularly in recession and sluggish recovery.”

Considering the second factor, people do not understand how much wealth has been withheld from them. The average person has never personally experienced or seen the excessive wealth and luxury that the mega-rich live in. Wealth inequality has grown so extreme and the wealthy have become so far removed from average society, it is as if the rich exist in some outer stratosphere beyond the comprehension of the average person. As the Guardian report states:

“… having little daily contact with the rich and little knowledge of how they lived, they simply didn’t think about inequality much, or regard the wealthy as direct competitors for resources. As the sociologist Garry Runciman observed: ‘Envy is a difficult emotion to sustain across a broad social distance.’… Even now most underestimate the rewards of bankers and executives. Top pay has reached such levels that, rather like interstellar distances, what the figures mean is hard to grasp.”

That popular show from the 1980s, The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, gave people a clue as to just how these parasites live. It's a whole different world from the average person or even the average millionaire.

People like Gates or the Kochs or any other of these obscenely rich have too much money, period. They are using their ill-gotten wealth to create mischief and misery upon the masses by creating "foundations" or "think tanks" to create policy or to influence public opinion instead of paying their goddamned share of taxes.

It pisses me off.

Here's another look at how the rich are different.