The Clueless Concern of the Aristocracy

See the clip at this story in the WaPo. Charles Dickens in the 21st century. When the waitress talks about the burden of her insurance premiums and co-pays, Romney doesn’t even know what the words mean. It’s probably to be expected that an aristocrat should think of a waitress as a lower form of creature beneath his notice. But that an aristocrat running for high office doesn’t even care to pretend to care about the lives of the lower orders shows just how established is the New Guilded Age.