Be Careful Who You Criticize

Trey Smith

We all know that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s former firm, is the paragon of capitalist evil, destroying the middle class in order to enrich greedy vulture oligarchs. We also all know that the Democratic Party is the defender of the middle class and the bold adversary of corporate pillaging. That’s why these facts generate so much cognitive dissonance:

Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan to attack Mitt Romney for his record at the private-equity firm.

During the last three election cycles, Bain employees have given Democratic candidates and party committees more than $1.2 million. The vast majority of that sum came from senior executives.

Republican candidates and party committees raised over $480,000 from senior Bain executives during that time period.

While Romney himself has received more contributions from his former firm than Obama has, “President Obama received a sizable share as well.” More generally, “campaign finance records show that Democrats collect more money from Wall Street than does the GOP.”

Why would these cunning Master of the Universe villains want so robustly to fund a party that is so adverse to their interests? The only coherent answer is that the party which they’re funding is anything but adverse to their interests.
~ from Democrats and Bain by Glenn Greenwald ~

Information like this goes a long way toward proving that national politics is little more than smoke-and-mirrors. The President and his fellow Democrats skewer Mitt Romney for his connection to Bain Capital, while...ahem...accepting contributions from that same firm hand over fist!

But the last paragraph above is the real kicker. Democrats are painting themselves as the party of the 99 percent, yet they are receiving bigger handouts than the Republicans from the 1 percent. So, who do you think the so-called liberals will go to bat for when push comes to shove?

If you think it's you, then might I suggest a mental health counselor to help you work through your delusions?