Indian Harbor Yacht Club, in Greenwich
From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
There was a terrific article recently in The New Yorker magazine about how rich Republicans in Greenwich, Conn., once known for their moderate, modest, honest, civic-minded “Eisenhower Republican” ways, signed on as Trump supporters. For a simple, amoral reason: He promised to make these already rich people richer by cutting their taxes and slashing regulations and did so. And Trump and “Moscow Mitch” McConnell plan to offer them even more goodies. In short, it’s all about appeals to pure selfishness, which work very well with this crowd: Vast sums have been flooding into Trump’s campaign coffers from Greenwich plutocrats.
The author, Evan Osnos, who used to live in Greenwich himself, also noted the increasing separation of these people from their communities. Look at how so many of them in places like Greenwich have installed very high, menacing walls around their estates, replacing the low stone walls and picket fences that were common around mogul/CEO estates back before the rise of Baby Boomer mega-greed and wealth exhibitionism starting in the ‘80s. I lived in Connecticut in the ‘60s and have noticed the change in Greenwich and other affluent Fairfield County towns since then.
Of course, pretty much all of us look out for Number 1 but some take that to extremes.
To read the piece, please hit this link.
