American Plutocrats Have Contempt for Working People

The 1 percent Wants Americans to Work Themselves to Death

Sen. Richard Burr only warned wealthy donors about the coronavirus threat. (Facebook)

I’ve figured out how the world ends. It ends with the rich and connected jetting off to another planet on a warp-drive enabled starship, while the rest of us are left to deal with the inevitable man-made or natural disaster.

I don’t think this scenario, also depicted in the disaster movie “2012,” is too extreme. Several recent actions show that the 1 percent have utter disregard for working people. America is a plutocracy, (a country governed by wealthy people) not a democracy. It’s run for and by a new age of unfeeling landed gentry who think anyone who makes less than $1 million is a lower lifeform.

Here are a few recent examples:

Senators Protected Their Stock Not the Country

Several senators on both sides of the aisle, including Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.,) decided to dump their stock when they received advanced warning of the…