His name is Ted Leonsis, and he’s a major donor to the Democratic Party — including its chief, Barack Obama. He owns several sports teams, serves on the board of several companies, and has even produced movies.

He’s also a big player in Democratic politics. In fact, he’s already maxed-out his contributions to Barack Obama for the coming presidential election. He did the same during the 2008 election.

But even he’s tired of Barack Obama’s class warfare rhetoric. He’s now ripping Democrats for demonizing success:

I say this as I read all of the rhetoric about Class Warfare, the rift that is being created between economic middle and lower class and as the President said “those millionaires and billionaires.”

The real rift in philosophy though is do you want the Government to create jobs and stimulate the economy or do you want America’s small business to be the engine of growth?

Economic Success has somehow become the new boogie man; some in the Democratic party are now casting about for enemies and business leaders and anyone who has achieved success in terms of rank or fiscal success is being cast as a bad guy in a black hat. This is counter to the American Dream and is really turning off so many people that love American and basically carry our country on their back by paying taxes and by employing people and creating GDP.

This is a bad move all designed by some pollster who said this is the way to get votes during the re-election. It should be stopped. We should be healing and creating teams NOT dividing and pitting people against one another.

Ted, baby, Democrats have been waging class warfare for decades. The “rich aren’t paying their fair share, those bastards” argument is as old as time. As is the tendency to cast people in groups and pit them against each other.

Cultural and class warfare have been part of the Democratic Party’s electoral and governing philosophy for quite some time. Just because you saw it recede a bit during the Clinton years didn’t mean it was gone.

Leonsis finally comes to the following stark realization:

I voted for our President. I have maxed out on personal donations to his re-election campaign. I forgot his campaign wants to raise $1 billion. THAT is a lot of money–money–money–money! Money still talks. It blows my mind when I am asked for money as a donation at the same time I am getting blasted as being a bad guy!

Central planners are only opposed to everyone else having the money. They’re just fine having the wealth themselves. Look at China. Look at the former Soviet Union. Look at Cuba. The people at the top weren’t suffering. The ordinary folks were, but the central planners were living large with everyone else’s money. That’s the way it works.