'But because they think he made billions, they think he knows what he's talking about'

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:



.....(snip).....

The other day I asked Geoffrey Fieger (no stranger to flamboyant rhetoric) why he thought Trump had such massive, irrational appeal to so many people.

"Because he has $4 billion," Fieger said. "If any ordinary guy said the things he is saying, people would say, 'Are you crazy?' Nobody would listen to them. But because they think he made billions, they think he knows what he's talking about."

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, has been accurately diagnosing what's really wrong with America, in a way no candidate has since Robert Kennedy. The biggest neglected story since 1981 has been the massive transfer of wealth from the poorest half of the population to the upper fraction of 1 percent.

We've made it nearly impossible for most people to make it into the middle class and extremely hard for working people to afford a decent four-year education at a state university.

Our infrastructure is falling apart, nationally, as well as in this state. Bernie Sanders, an independent elected from Vermont, is the only candidate talking about doing something about it, which is why he is doing so well in early polls in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, despite not being taken seriously by the media. ....................(more)

http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/politics-and-prejudice-talking-heads-bernie-and-the-donald/Content?oid=2368928

[MisterP]

1. that happens a LOT with rich people: they think they're "successful" and thus any cocktail-

napkin idea is golden, each one a new Apple, Inc., and they're surrounded by people they pay to say it's a great idea and who work night and day to turn it into some sort of workable idea

remember the Six Californias? Nuke Mars? there's already a Martian Constitutional amendment regarding sievert-hours floating around online, and deep discussions of the new futures markets they'll have to set up once we blow up Venus: it was in a novel, it HAS to happen! (Wired's a scary place)