"In an environment of scarcity, where the cost of living is rising, folks begin to get angry and bitter and look for scapegoats. Historically, instead of looking at the top 5% of this country that controls all the wealth, we turn towards each other, and the Republicans have added to the fire."
In that interview, Obama explains that his perspective on the “top 5%” was shaped by his experiences abroad:
"It's about power. My travels made me sensitive to the plight of those without power and the issues of class and inequalities as it relates to wealth and power. Anytime you have been overseas in these so-called third world countries, one thing you see is the vast disparity of wealth of those who are part of power structure and those outside of it."
These comments are reminiscent of both the most radical Occupy Wall Street rhetoric and Obama’s infamous comments in San Francisco in April 2008 in which he stated that Americans suffering difficult economic times “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”
Kinda sounds like "never let a crisis go to waste," has obviously been in this 1-percenter-wolf-in-99-percenter-sheep's-clothing's repertoire longer than we suspected, 'cause we've never seen so many manufactured crises since this guy's been in office.
And then there's that BS power struggle comparison between our country and 'so-called third world countries'. TheRightScoop may be onto something in that regard: "If he’s not going to call them third-world countries, he must believe they are are victims of American prosperity. Now that I think about it, seems like I remember Obama mentioning redistribution of wealth from our nation to other nations."
