Do they contradict your expectations of them? They have the audacity of not acting the way you think they should?

You seem incensed that someone who is good at making money isn't entitled to have liberal views. Making money is a skill, not a virtue, like playing the piano. Its part genetics, part personal effort and part dumb luck. And when you think about it, personal effort is at least partly genetic, and genetics is dumb luck.

What are rich liberals supposed to do? Give their cash to the poor before they're allowed to speak up for them? Also, just because rich liberals may have liberal views, does not mean they are socialists. Your definition of socialist is a bit too self-serving. You seem to cavalierly apply it to anyone who doesn't meet your expectations, or who is better at your game than you are.

Applying that same logic the other way, only rich people who started off piss poor should be entitled to wealth, or to hold conservative views. Everybody who had a decent upbringing or the head start of good family and connections or luck should be forced to give it all up because only those who REALLY earned it should have it.

Maybe some rich people are liberals simply because they are nicer people. Try that one on for size.

I must have struck some kind of nerve, TB, you spent practically your whole rebuttal to my post attacking two sentences, and you failed to comment on anything else.

I had to look up Priscilla. My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower. They came over on the Mascotte.