These truths should be self-evident

This is the kind of thing that should go without saying.

if you own even modest assets (a small house, a savings account) and you think that in a battle between the political class and the business class it's in your interest for the latter to lose, you're a fool who entirely deserves the vaporization of his wealth on which Barney Frank & Co have embarked.

Unfortunately, not only does it need to be said, there is a substantial percentage, if not an absolute majority, of people in this country that does not understand it to be true.