Elites use COVID-19 to build wealth, flaunt virtue as middle America suffers
Our two-tiered society -- and why the liberal rich love it
By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 14, 2021
OPINION:
Last week, movie stars Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jennifer Lawrence all hit the “Don’t Look Up” red carpet in New York City for the premiere of their new film, which offers “a humorous warning about climate change, politics and more,” according to filmmaker Adam McKay.
The stars were all decked out in designer duds, smiling for the cameras and giving interviews, preaching — maskless — about the perils of the so-called climate crisis while surrounded by workers and staff who all were required to have their faces covered.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a very visible two-tier society. It’s a society where the upper class can lecture you about wearing masks and abiding by the “science” while exempting themselves from their own rules.
Yes, there’s the obvious hypocrisy, but there’s something more sinister going on: The pandemic has exacerbated the inequality gap between the haves and have-nots in this country — and the “haves” seem to like it that way.
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