Our Shabby Plutocracy Class Matters

Class has many meaningsI do not mean class as defined by metrics like income or race I mean it more as Pirsig means qualitySo when I say plutocrats have no classand Obama doesI think as follows
Class is intellectual opennessClass is appreciation of qualityClass is the distance that says I do notsuffer fools gladly
There are some things one might associatewith class in Americalike HarvardBut Harvard has produced its shareof snobs bullies and ideologues
Class is fragileIt can be lostIt cannot be willedIt cannot be attainedIf I think of my friendsand acquaintanceswho have classthey range froma friend out West who raceddrag strips and lives hand to mouthand a stroke victim in Nashvillewho is gracious in suspensionto President ObamaI have not met himbut his class is revealed dailyin the face ofplutocrats whowould kill to have his classbut lack itas they continue on their criminal way
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