Downhill
Remember: Pence thinks, and says, that it’s a bad thing that Democrats (or the left more broadly) “want to make poverty comfortable.”
Meanwhile…
Uncomfortable poverty for them, publicly funded flights to Vail for him. Lockdown for them, vacations in Vail for him.
No Mr. Pence, it’s “Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” not the other way ’round.
Having lived most of my life until now in Colorado, and being a lover of mountains, I drove past Vail many times since it’s on one of the main arteries into the back country. The airport is located right next to the highway. I never failed to boggle at the many dozens of private jets parked there. So much wealth and indulgence. And there I was, driving past in a beat-up junker of a car on my way to sleep on the ground under the stars and the vastness of the Milky Way, so bright that it almost seems blinding. One had to pity those poor fools who weren’t going to experience that marvelous night that I was going to enjoy. I’d wager any amount of money that Pence has never seen that, and probably wouldn’t even want to.
From that I conclude that Pence would prefer the Democrats to make the rich people richer and the poor people less comfortable.
Or else he is trying to flog trickle down economics.
Omar: remember that Biden WAS named at one point, “the Senator from Citbank”. While I voted for him and and am ecstatic that that…thing…will (Hopefully) be soon departing the White House, I don’t have many delusions about the “KInder, Gentler Party of Wall Street and War”
Brian M:
By a peculiar twist of fate, the US has never developed a mass social-democratic party as found here in Australia and in most other European-derived countries. Instead you have rival capitalist parties, representing in part different geographical areas.
That is best explained IMHO by the ‘frontier thesis’ of the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner. In a nutshell, America’s was a ‘small man’s frontier’, while Australia’s was a ‘big man’s frontier’. The result in America was social unity through family, religion, ‘in God we Trust’ and so on, while in Australia it was more a nomad rural working class, trade unionism on an industrial scale, and a nationwide maritime and shearers’ strike in 1891 out of which came the Australian Labor Party and the first national labor government in the world; by the eve of the First World War.
George Stevens’ film ‘Shane’ (1953) encapsulated the American frontier brilliantly, I think. I have it on DVD and still watch it occasionally, for auld lang syne. I first saw it as a teenager.