My thinking on wealth, society, and the relationships between the two things is still a work in progress, but I lean heavily towards this theory of human dynamics.
I advise you to read what Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihin had to say on the subject of wealth and socialism in his book "Leftism Revisited."
One of his basic premises is that socialism always appears to originate from the wives and children of wealthy men.
Apparently wealth itself isn't bad, it is the presumptuousness of moral superiority that is created by unearned wealth that seems to be the problem.
Looks like an interesting thesis, but let's look specifically at this country, and I think the growth of socialism is a mixed bag of wealthy and non-wealthy Presidents.
The worst of the worst, IMO, was Wilson, not born wealthy. FDR obviously was, but LBJ, the worst in my lifetime, was not, nor were Clinton or Obama.
So even if you include the Bush's in your "socialism" category, it's still a minority in terms of who has driven this country into socialism.
I'm glad you see that wealth, in and of itself is not bad. So your categorically denouncing HW because of his wealth has less merit then, does it not? Whether or not he thinks he is better than you and me is pure speculation.
