Just when I think Stephen King is forever on my shit list (the one-two punch of Under the Dome and 11/22/63 was nearly enough to kill me) he has to go and write something awesome about politics:
I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, âIâm rich and I donât apologize for it.â Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us wantâthose who arenât blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn moneyâis for you to acknowledge that you couldnât have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That itâs not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? Itâs un-fucking-American is what it is. I donât want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means thatâsorry, kiddiesâyouâre on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to payânot to give, not to âcut a check and shut up,â in Governor Christieâs words, but to payâin the same proportion. Thatâs called stepping up and not whining about it. Thatâs called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesnât cost their beloved rich folks any money.
Go and read the whole thing.