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No, Will, I don't worship the rich. But I don't despise them, either, and I recognize that different people have different talents. Making money is one talent that the world can use more of. It would be really nice if everyone was rich.
I'm also not superstitious about money the way lefties are. Lefties tend to think that money has a supernatural effect like mind rays, that people can be forced to do things simply because someone with money says they should. I know I don't do things I don't want to, and I bet you don't either, so why do you think that most people are at the mercy of corporations or people with money? No corporation can force me to do anything, but the government can (and those corporations that can force me can only do it with government backing).
Whitman's money got her message out. That's all it did. It can't force people to vote for her. If people don't want to buy what she is selling (so to speak), there is nothing she can do to force them. The money simply got her a somewhat less uneven playing field against Jerry Brown, who started out with huge advantages. If she loses the election (as it appears she will), well, obviously she lost fair and square, right? So much the worse for California, but hey, it's a free country and people get the government they deserve. When the state goes bankrupt because the prison guards' union took all the money with Brown's blessing, the voters will have no one to blame but themselves.
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