The smug elitism of being super rich will be the end of tRump and Company

[stopbush]

These people are not used to being challenged. They are used to intimidating underlings who are dependent on them for their livelihoods. They are used to people jumping high and saying "yes sir!" as they jump.

That's not who they are up against when it comes to Mueller and even the Congressional investigative committees. Nobody in those bodies owes their livelihood to tRump. Sure, if you're a R Congressman, you may well owe your 2016 election victory to Putin, er, tRump. But that was then. This is now.

As is so typical of the wealthy, the wealthy tRumps believe, truly believe, that their wealth bestows upon them an intelligence that non-wealthy people don't possess. They believe that this imagined intelligence puts them in an unique position to act as arbiters in what is good for society, and that such a position comes with a level of societal trust in their mental acumen that effectively makes them immune from the trials and tribulations of the commoners. Things like lying under oath, colluding with a foreign power etc, are not bad things when done in the service of the tRumps. Because as the self-imagined guardians of civil society, they truly believe that what is good for the tRumps is ultimately good for everyone else.

We are at that point where it could go either way. Either the vast majority of the anti-tRump masses prevail, or the small handful of rich people wannabees (the R members of Congress) prevails. Our ace in the hole is the fact that Mueller's non-partisan investigation doesn't care either way.

This is the thread on which our democracy hangs.

[Wounded Bear]

1. We hope...

Their goal is to set up an oligarchy, much like Russia, and the return of, for lack of a better term, feudalism.

Money is power, and power is money. Until we can soften that reality, life will continue to get worse.

[DetlefK]

2. You got the argument backwards:

In their reasoning, wealth does not lead to intelligence. Wealth is a CONSEQUENCE of intelligence.
- Poor people are stupid, otherwise they wouldn't be poor.
- How smart can the scientists possibly be if they are not rich?

[stopbush]

3. You forget that much of the wealth in this country is inherited.

Just like tRump's wealth was inherited to a great extent.

Hard to argue that the intelligence of your ancestors was passed down to you as well, along with the wealth, no?

[DetlefK]

4. Facts have a liberal bias.