Trump serves them well

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.

'Against house rules'

Indian Harbor Yacht Club, in Greenwich, Conn.

"I saw the black maid park the Cadillac

In the lot of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club.

When she hefted the first huge silver tray

of delicacies for that evening’s soiree

on her boss’s yacht, I offered to help.

No, she said, in her starched gray uniform

on orders from her employer. The launch man

In wrinkled khakis and a black cap with gold

braided on the bill, told her no, she couldn’t

ride the launch. Against Club rules.''

-- From “The Net,’’ by Peter Harris