could you promote the frame that top 1% are hoarders?

[grasswire]

Could you write a letter to the editor and talk about how the rich elites at the top 1% are the same as hoarders who have a mental disorder? That they are ruining our American home with their addiction to money and materialism and power? That when hoarders can't stop themselves, others of sound mind must intervene in the best interest of all? That taxing the hoarders their fair share is simply an intervention because they can't help themselves and America can't live with the problem any longer?

I challenge you to write this kind of a LTTE. Changing public opinion about the 1% could drive policy.

[Celebration]

1. refer everyone

to "Silas Marner".

[Initech]

2. Yes they are hoarders. And forcing us to fight for what's left of the scraps is wrong.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Sure, I think you could make this argument pretty easily............

But what good would it do? Your last sentence talks about changing opinion about the 1% driving policy, but THE OPINIONS ARE ALREADY THERE ABOUT THE 1%! MOST people want to relieve them of some of their money by taxation, but that doesn't seem to make a damn BIT of difference.

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT RAISING TAXES. If the subject is brought up, it's shut down IMMEDIATELY.

As much as I hate to say it, I think we're going to have to TAKE some of that money from them. Taxation is the easiest and most peaceful way of doing it, but there ARE other ways.

[jdp349]

4. It's a really stupid frame

Compulsive hoarding is thought generally to be a form of OCD which requires a trained professional to diagnose and pertains to individuals. You're ascribing a quality from a group to it's individuals which is the fallacy of division which means right off the bat your argument is fundamentally flawed.

[grasswire]

5. I think you miss the point of the strategy of framing n/t

[ladjf]

6. The super rich are definitely hoarding wealth, not out of need, but,

out of greed. The original OP states that such behavior rises to the level of a mental disorder, not exactly as is currently defined by mental health professionals, but a type of neurotic behavior none the less. I agree.

If the 99% of the human race is unable to recognize what they are dealing with and take steps to stop
the transfer of wealth to the rich, life on Earth will be reduced to a state of meager survival.