To the surprise of virtually no one, Courtier to the Elitists (the elitist class lets him pretend he’s one of them because of that purty way he uses his tongue) David Brooks is quite taken with Charles Murray’s “Oh Great. Now The Fucking White Trash Is Acting Like The Coloreds.”

Hot on the heels of Charles Murray’s upcoming The Rich Man’s Burden: Civilizing The Savages fellow AEI’er [coughwingnutwelfarerecipientcough] James Q Wilson takes to the pages of Fred Hiatt’s Rich Folk’s Etch-a-Sketch page to wave his hands around and deflect deflect deflect people’s attention away from the American Romney Class by pointing out that you’re just upset and acting irrationally (you’re probably having your period, aren’t you?) if you’re pointing at the Romney Rich as 99% percent of the problem on economic inequality in America.

With all the hoopla surrounding Tuesday’s State of the Union speech and the on-going Republican Clown Car primaries and caucuses, you may have missed that the annual World Economic Forum meeting is going on right now in Davos, Switzerland.

I’m just spit-balling here but, according to an old IRS schedule I found under my desk along with some fancy guesstimating taking into account the longitude and latitude of Ft. Knox times The Number of The Beast divided by the current price of the Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity® at IHOP, Warren Buffet’s secretary must make like a hundred bajillion dollars and change per year.

Even the 99.9th% figured out that they are garbage to their oligarch owners. No wonder the rest of us are worried about electing an oligarch president.

It would be hard to see this rather rapid change in public opinion as anything but a real victory for the Occupy movement, which is heavily focused on the growing economic inequality in this country. The Occupy movement managed to change the national conversation.

Given his steady support of Mitch McConnell, it’s a fair guess that Lamar Alexander truly believes that democrats and the people they claim to represent are not entitled to govern. Or, as Corey Robin puts it: “Submission is their first duty, agency, the prerogative of the elite.”

We’ve been talking about income inequality lately, and tied into that is the idea of upward mobility. The United States, in the myths of cock-eyed optimists everywhere, remains the land of opportunity, where everyone can get a fair shot at greatness. But that America hasn’t existed for a while. In fact, as Jason DeParle reports, upward mobility doesn’t really exist in this country anymore.

A building and loan association, like the Bailey Brothers’ in It’s a Wonderful Life, uses the savings of its members to provide mortgages to the depositors. Members essentially pool their money to give each other the opportunity to buy cars and homes. But Mr. Potter scoffs at such “charity.” The GOP does the same with Social Security, Medicare and other programs that pool the nation’s wealth to help the middle class.

David Dayen does a lovely job of dissecting this wretchedly dishonest exercise in Galtian self-pity by Jamie Dimon and his fellow one-percenter elites, but I can’t help taking a swing at that fastball they parked right over the plate.

So anyway, how many of these self-alleged “job creators” are totally self-made superior beings? Hmmm, not many.