Last weekend early in the morning a lone gunman in a hoodie walked up to Brian Johnson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest health proxy, outside a Manhattan Marriott hotel and shot the chief executive three times with a pistol. All chest shots. The assailant jumped on an Ebike and fled into Central Park. Mr. Johnson was declared DOA at Mount Sinai Hospital. Elon Musk was outraged by this attack on a corporate leader and according to Wikipeida public officials, which included Minnesota governor and former Democratic vice president nominee Tim Walz and Senator Amy Klobuchar, expressed dismay and offered condolences to Thompson’s family.

In contrast, many social media users shared their contempt for Thompson, UnitedHealthcare, and the American health insurance system. The Washington Post said that many people mocked Thompson’s death and others felt satisfaction Luigi Mangione came from a well-connected family and graduated from U Penn in 2020. A member of the upper class unlike his victim, however according to the BBC he spent time in a co-living surfing community in Hawaii called Surfbreak. Sarah Nehemiah, who knew him then, told CBS he left due to his back injury which had worsened from surfing and hiking pointing to a possible denial of treatment by his health insurer.

Denials by the ‘health care’ companies resulted in 68,000 deaths last year. Not murder, but a culling of the working class. Of course Universal Health Care threatens the USA with godless socialism as opposed to the capitalist brutalism of UnitedHealthcare. Thankfully I have Medicare and Medicaid thanks to LBJ, who we will never forgive for buying into the Brightest and Best’s Domino Theory that convinced him that we needed to fight the Commies in Vietnam, so the CIA and Mafia could control the heroin trade.

Brina Thompson was not a member of the upper-class.

Luigi Mangione shot a capitalist lackey rather than a member of the generational wealth class. His father was a grain elevator worker. His family lives in an upper class town in Minnesota. NOt the Hamptons or Palm Beach. Brian Thompson was strictly following orders for his overlords, pushing up denials from 9% in 2019 to almost 22% in 2023 leading to a good portion of the deaths of 68,000 Americans denied health care by the insurance companies. Yekaterinburg is the only course of redressing inequality. Of course everyone succumbs to the lure of ‘Who wants to be a billionaire?’

Many of my liberal freinds are critical of this young man striking at the hear t of the health care. The same people who istened to the Beatles sing in revolution # 9, “If you are talking about destruction, then leave me out.”

And these same people wonder why the working class has deserted the Democratic Party.

William Hazlitt “Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground.”

Personally I see Yekaterinburg 1917 as the only solution to the Ultra Rich, unless they opt to redress their sins by spending all their wealth.

This shooting is not the revolution, just a long gunman striking their target.

ps Luigi Mangione is not related to the trumpeter Chuck Mangione.