The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He’s a Delusional One-Percenter By Jonathan Chait

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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/case-against-romney.html


Naturally, this circles us back to the irrepressible question of what Romney himself actually believes. The vast industry devoted to exploring the unknowable question of Romney’s true beliefs has largely ignored a simple and obvious possibility: That Romney has undergone the same political and/or psychological transformation that so many members of his class have since 2009. If there is one hard fact that American journalism has established since 2009, it is that many of America’s rich have gone flat-out bonkers under President Obama. Gabriel Sherman first documented this phenomenon in his fantastic 2009 profile in this magazine, “The Wail of the 1%,” which described how the financial elite had come to see themselves as persecuted, largely faultless targets of Obama and their greedy countrymen. Alec MacGillis and Chrystia Freeland have painted a similar picture.

The ranks of the panicked, angry rich include Democrats as well as Republicans and elites from various fields, but the most vociferous strains have occurred among the financial industry and among Republicans. All this is to say, had he retired from public life after 2008, super-wealthy Republican financier Mitt Romney is exactly the kind of person you’d expect to have lost his mind, the perfect socioeconomic profile of a man raging at Obama and his mob. Indeed, it would be strange if, at the very time his entire life had come to focus on the goal of unseating Obama, and he was ensconced among Obama’s most affluent and most implacable enemies, Romney was somehow immune to the psychological maladies sweeping through his class.

Seen in this light, Romney’s belief in himself as a just and deserving leader is not merely a form of personal ambition free of ideological content. His faith in himself blends seamlessly into a faith in his fellow Übermenschen — the Job Creators who make our country go, who surround him and whose views shaped his program. To think of Romney as torn between two poles, then, is a mistake. Both his fealty to his party and his belief in his own abilities point in the same direction: the entitlement of the superrich to govern the country.

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[Voice for Peace]

2. kick nt

[sally5050]

3. not just the superrich

but the religiosly self ordained.

combine extreme greed
extreme hubris
extreme self - adoration
extreme selfish worship of one's self and one's self ordained mission from god

and you have a very scary character who thinks he was chosen to lead the US by buying cheap cans of unnessary corn for folks in NJ who's Governor said "no thanks don't bring your crap to my state"

what you have is a mormon who at the height of his brainwashed delusions of grandeur is being rebuffed at all avenues and cannot understand why people don't want his mormon cult like vision of a US under Mormon control.

stiff and uptight from rules he himself cannot maintain, a man who's wife is a drug addict, who himself prefers men, he mocks americans with the folly of a campaign for president and we americans mock ourselves with a folly of a candidate who would not have gotten past applying in any other country in the world.

Romney will remain the laughing stock of america for centuries to come..... mark my word, this man has harmed america more than our history books will ever reveal.

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4. why the addiction and gay inferences?

it's not as if Mittwitt and Queen Anne cannot be trashed without stooping that low

edited to mention that by low I mean by adding unsubstantiated allegations

[pangaia]

5. Where has Harry Reid been in all this..besides his one inference..?