Continuing the oddity...

[Dennis S]

As to number 2, a portion of the richest people have always tried to get even richer at the expense of everyone else. Look at "The Grapes of Wrath." Watch old westerns. The history books are full of these stories. At different times, they are very successful in their aims, always with the government is enlisted in their cause. The government could be thwarted for a time if a certain segment of voters were not so gullible and ignorant. This is one of those times.