"The more things change the more it stays the same."
Its like that political cartoon from the Chicago Tribune from the 1930's, about how government overspending was going to collapse society. How it so fits today, not like the Tribune of today would bother with printing it.
I have cousins who think any rich person either got lucky (like winning the lottery) cheated or stole their way to wealth. They don't believe its is grown by business. Their father (my late uncle) ran a small construction company, that they all at one time or another worked at. My uncle really wasn't that great a business guy (frankly he was far too nice). In spite of being a small business owner, he was a staunch lifelong Democrat (its how I learned to love irony, as their best years were the Reagan years, the president he hated with a passion). He had plenty on his plate running the place (after he passed, we realized how much he held his family together, they just fell apart when he died).
So he didn't really go after things that could have grown the business. Plus he relocated the business to a economically depressed place, so even if he was a good businessman, there would never be lots of work.
So it never grew and basically just got by. Barely. So they see small business as a huge waste of time. Only one tried to run his own business and he failed because he is very hard to work with.
Now I have a second uncle, same side of the family. He is a successful businessman, in real estate investing. Instead of seeing what made him successful all they do is make negative comments about how he is cheap (he isn't, not by a long shot). Or how his father helped him start his business (something his dad did do, one time, and something their own father would have done, had they asked..........).
But even their own successful friends (well the ones they haven't driven away) get the same nasty comments about how their wealth came about.
And yes, those cousins are all Democrat and Obama voters.
