Jesus was Right!

Pottersville was what Frank Capra called it....the village where the rich amoral banker had taken over; leaving its citizens poor, drunk and broke.

The Great Depression was a massive hit to the wealthy...the roaring Twenties and WWI were blamed on the super rich.

I remember reading comic books about "Richie Rich".  We were taught that rich was dangerous, that you lost your humanity if you became rich.

Of course, it goes further back than this; Jesus preached against the rich, aiming at Jewish Hierarchy (mostly the Priests) who got rich from cooperating with the hated Romans and from swindling the poor through sacrifice scams.

Jesus only went postal once, surprising considering he operated in a Roman dominated dictatorship, at the Jewish Temple, where he physically assaulted the Priests and their scam.

This is a little daunting considering that the Son of Man had the full power of God on his side; he could have evaporated the Temples if he wanted to.

But he did not; he used them to teach that wealth was suspect; that you get as many rich people into heavan as you could get a camel through the eye of a pin.

Today, we worship wealth.  We have elected by far the biggest asshole and the richest President in our history.  We buy tons of electonic devices, post to a Facebook ran by a Trillionaire, and all aspire to become the entrepeneur that hits the jackpot and becomes rich as well.

And the gap between rich and poor widens constantly.  And the homeless grow in numbers.  And our danger of annihilation at the hands of a crazed rich President grow everyday.

Jesus was right; distrust the rich, they hate you!