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On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published a bizarre letter from wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins warning that the underclasses could stage a Nazi Germany-style pogrom against the wealthy.
In the piece titled Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? Perkins worried that wealthy people like himself could end up being rounded up in the night and forced into camps.
Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, took place in early November of 1938. Nazi forces invaded Jewish neighborhoods and homes and forced them out, sending them by foot and rail to concentration camps, where millions perished.
An estimated 30,000 Jews were arrested and imprisoned on Kristallnacht. More than 90 people were murdered by SA forces and thousands of synagogues were burned to the ground. Perkins believes that a similar fate could await the tiny percentage of Americans who hold the bulk of the nations wealth.
Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, Perkins said, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the rich.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely its Jews,
The Jews were the... one percent?
Hey Mr. Tom Perkins, you SHOULD be worried...
Herself
(185 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)"The day is not far distant," he thundered, "when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth ... will pass away 'unwept, unhonoured, and unsung', no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: 'The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced'."
Warpy
(111,359 posts)the more of the whirlwind you will reap.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)kind of like how this happened to the Occupy Movement with the collusion of government and Wall Street:
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)lol
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I must be missing something.
He would probably be better to compare the unrepentant capitalist shift to the French Revolution.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)God forbid taxes should be raised on these assholes.