Recently, people have been debating whether Mitt Romney is wrong about the motivations of 47% of Americans that he pledges not to care about if elected, but I think that debate ignores a larger and more important question. The debate ought to be over whether America should elect as president a man whose life of privilege has endowed him with such a cruel and dismissive attitude toward everyday citizens that he would boldly declare that almost half of all Americans don't deserve his attention. In my book, a man like that deserves nobody's vote!
When Marie Antointette famously replied, "Let them eat cake," it is frequently assumed that she was being cruel and dismissive toward the suffering of her people. The truth is that Marie Antoinette led such a privileged and sheltered life that she had no real sense of the plight or conditions under which her subjects lived. Marie Antoinette's ignorance is understandable. The same can't be said of Romney. Mitt Romney is not an ignorant man, but his life of privilege and wealth has bred a disdain in him for common folks and the struggles they face on a daily basis. That kind of callous disregard has no place in America, let alone the White House.
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