The American Job Creator is under seige,
argues Michelle Malkin, and the success-shaming, class-shaming, and wealth-shaming must stop.
Last week, a prominent self-made tech mogul dared to diagnose the problem publicly. His passionate letter to the Wall Street Journal decried the “progressive war on the American 1 percent.” He called on the Left to stop demonizing “the rich,” and he condemned the Occupy movement’s “rising tide of hatred.” [Note: his letter is reprinted below.]
The mini-manifesto was newsworthy because this truth-teller is not a GOP politician or conservative activist or Fox News personality. ...
The letter-writer is Tom Perkins, a Silicon Valley pioneer with an MIT degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a Harvard MBA. He started out at the bottom at Hewlett-Packard, founded his own separate laser company on the side, and then teamed up with fellow entrepreneur Eugene Kleiner to establish one of the nation’s oldest and most important venture-capital firms — Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
Because he dared to compare the seething resentment of modern progressives to Kristallnacht and Nazi Germany, the grievance industry attacked Perkins and dismissed his message. His former colleagues at the venture-capital firm he founded threw him under the bus. Left-wing punk journalists immediately branded him “nuts” and a “rich idiot.”
Malkin argues the most dangerous threats to the nation's job creators doesn't come from left-wing punks. Rather, she writes,
...they come from the men in power in Washington who stoke bottomless hatred against 'millionaires and billionaires' through class-bashing rhetoric and entrepreneur-cursing policies ... It's high time to shame the wealth-shamers and their cowed enablers. Silence is complicity.
