Memes and themes that could work

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Watching Kerrey tonight, I hear him speak of the "privileged" versus the powerless. I am a far far left person myself, so that appeals to me, but you have to admit it is not something that is in tune with the current zeitgeist. If he would just substitute for "privileged" terms such as "the connected," the "old boy network," "cronies," something along the lines of "In my america, opportunity won't be limited to the connected, the the old boys, the cronies, the Haliburtons, the Enrons, in my america, I want to see the the talented and hard working rewarded, not the sons and daughters of the politically powerful, who skate through life trading on their connections and position and power." Its a comprehensive theme that brings up nepotism and Bush's father and his connections, it drags all the negatives about Bush under one umbrella. How's this for a phrase "the connected, the cronies, and the campaign contributors"?

My point is, its tired old class war rhetoric to talk of "privilege," and it doesn't play in Peoria, but noone likes nepotism and cronyism, and by substituting those memes you touch a cord the average man can appreciate, and you get to drag in Haliburton, and you get to drag in Bush's crony capitalism path to "success," in which his every failure was rescued by Poppies cronies. Just my two cents.