Melting Pot, My Ass....The Separation of the Classes is *By Far* Our Biggest Problem as a Nation....
Mitt Romney is the PERFECT representative of his class. Born into wealth with a profound sense of entitlement, he forms (or probably more accurately, figureheads) a company which blithely destroys the lives of the classes beneath him. And he has next to no awareness of the pain he inflicts - all he knows is that he NEEDS to do these things to maintain his position in HIS class.
I despise war. Any sane person does. But, unlike the made-for-TV War on Terror, WWII was a very real existential threat to the nation. People from ALL classes pulled together and rubbed shoulders. They had to. Class distinctions were not destroyed, but for a while, they were blurred. So Mitt's dad, like so many of his generation, had a very different view of the classes "beneath" him.
I watched this nation as we've moved from the "George Romney"s to the "Mitt Romney"s. Every chart on wealth distribution will tell you the result. We've allowed a new, privileged, predatory aristocracy to form. And it is tearing America apart at the seams.