Many decades ago when Cranky was a history major, one historical situation puzzled him a bit. It involved the French Revolution in the waning years of the 18th Century. The thing that puzzled him was, what made the French common folk such blood-thirsty rascals? Yeah, they had some grievances, and yeah, it was long ago when people were maybe still imbibed with some primitive blood lust, but getting their kicks by cutting off the heads of their social and economic betters? Cranky just didn't quite get it.
Well, now in his waning years, Cranky is beginning to get it. The ascendancy of His Highness D.J. Trump to the Presidency of these United States and the obnoxious rich people he has surrounded himself with has shown Cranky that, under the proper circumstances, disliking the rich very much is an easy emotion to develop. Indeed, it is extremely hard to resist.
The latest evidence that the rich are obnoxious? The tax bills that the House and the Senate will likely soon combine into a monstrous financial goody gift for those at the top of the economic pyramid. And what will this goody gift have for the us peasants? A "tremendous" increase in the national debt, not to mention increased taxes for many poor and middle income taxpayers.
Maybe the guillotine wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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