Astounding. One of the Tea Party’s largest groups, Tea Party Nation, founded by the infamous Judson Phillips, last week posted an obscene comparison between the rich — the 1%, as it were — and the gay community. In, “Rich is the New Gay,” a blog post heralded and emailed to all members, Dr. Tim Nerenz pens an Orwellian rant and an apparent attempt supposed to draw sympathy. Claiming that while it is “no longer permissible in our civil society to hate based on skin color, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, or sexual preference,” it’s OK to hate the wealthy.
Wealth is evil. Capitalism is sodomy. Free enterprise is lewd and lascivious conduct. Wall Street is the new Castro Street, only it’s ok to light it on fire. Even Tiffany Newt feels free to tee off on Mitt Romney for being (gasp) too rich – think Ellen reefing on Elton John to win George Michael’s vote.
You can say the most hateful things imaginable about rich people – even the President does it, cheered on by a wealth-o-phobic media. Imagine how the fur would fly if a President blamed all his failures on homosexuals, or if he expressed support for violent mobs rioting in the streets if it were the 3.6% instead of the 1% whose heads are demanded on a pole.
The left/right paradigms for wealth and sexual preference are pretty much the same: liberals insist that material preference is assigned at birth; conservatives believe it is a choice. Closet richos like Michael Moore or the Obamas possess the same self-loathing false piety as Ted Haggert or Larry Craig. Their response to being outed is loud, angry denial; wide stance or baseball cap, the disguise doesn’t fool anyone.
The rich even have their transgendered equivalents – trans-wealthered, I suppose – who have crossed over from the poor side to the rich side. I don’t think the abuse hurled against Herman Cain was because he was black; it was because he is black and refused to stay poor. To the haters, that is one sick puppy. Tim Tebow is even worse – openly rich, openly humble, and openly Christian. Unforgivable.
The Tea Party is crying for the poor oppressed wealthy.
Rich is the new gay, so go ahead and hate if you must. But remember this: gay people can’t make you gay, but rich people can make you rich. That is, if you quit screaming at them long enough to ask them how they did it. That is how most of us trans-wealthered people started our rise on the updraft.; we shut up and listened.
Have you ever read such garbage? Nerenz’s prejudices are on full display.
Someone should tell Dr. Tim Nerenz, who happens toy be a member of the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, that the Left doesn’t hate the wealthy. We just hate the way many of them got there.
Image via Nerenz’s Facebook page