Eric Hoffer Versus The Rich and Super-Rich In America

By February 15, 1070, based on an emerging realization of his perhaps latent or so concluded decades earlier, Eric Hoffer wrote a scathing editorial against the American wealthy for their un-patriotic anti-Americanism and Left-leaning antagonism towards America, its liberties, its mass society, its middle class, and working-class culture, it free markets its affluence and materialism.

Let me quote a bit from his editorial and then see if he is a Social Darwinist: he sounds more like an average Trumpian capitalist than a George H. W. Bush, old-line Republican: This is from his article, Rich and Righteous, Page 227 of his The Syndicated News Articles: "It used to be taken for granted that the rich exploit the poor. But nowadays as you listen to the talk of some of the rich you get the impression that what they want most is to ally themselves with the poor against those of us in between. In the 1960s persons of great wealth have been a major source of support for radical political activity.

. . . In addition to a monopoly on wealth the new rich have a monopoly of righteousness. . .  Moreover the radical rich have radical sons. . . . The rich parents applaud and subsidize their revolutionary sons."

We see today the billionaires, the millionaires, corporations, universities, clergymen, Hollywood, Academia and the Legacy Media, all educated elites uniting with or directing the New Left to overthrow America and set up a Marxist tyranny here, where the little people once again will know their place, and will be ruled top-down, but that is not the traditional America that Hoffer and I loved, and we fight mightily to preserve it if we may.