Ebenezer Scrooge is a well known villain in literary history, but at least he had a redemption arc. The same cannot be said of George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and Tom Steyer:
We still have Scrooges this holiday season, and the wealthiest of them—George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and Tom Steyer—have inflicted far more suffering on the poor than Scrooge ever did to Bob Cratchit and the working class of his day. These billionaires may not seem like Scrooges, given their extensive philanthropy, but that’s only because most readers today don’t understand exactly where the original Scrooge went wrong.
The analogy is strained.
Dickens wrote the Caro in 1843, when the industrial movement was sweeping the nation and the chartist movement was afoot. Charles was also expressing his life.
Gates, et al, are mere ghosts of Christmases now, and yet to come.
Robert. Merry Christmas, my friend.
Tom Steyer is flooding the CA airwaves with the most obnoxious ads for Governor in the history of this State. In one commercial … Steyer stands in front of a residential garage with the door open … and brags that he “started his own business which became a billion dollar enterprise” … implying he is just like Steve Jobs and Wozniak … not a rapacious hedge fund pirate. And then … as he’s bragging about his ‘start-up’ “business” … he’s pictured standing in a warehouse structure … as if his business is similar to Amazon. OMG. It is so utterly bullshitty … that I am praying he gets no more than 0.5% of the vote.
Ebenezer Scrooge became a Christian. This lot…
The single greatest existential threat to Marx and all the Left.