Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders and the Myth of the 1 Percent
The very rich are richer than people imagine.
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This line of attack is, however, deeply stupid. Politicians who support policies that would raise their own taxes and strengthen a social safety net theyre unlikely to need arent being hypocrites; if anything, theyre demonstrating their civic virtue.
But failure to understand what hypocrisy means isnt the only way our discourse about politics and inequality goes off the rails. The catchphrase the 1 Percent has also become a problem, obscuring the nature of class in 21st-century America.
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Even now, most Americans dont seem to realize just how rich todays rich are. At a recent event, my CUNY colleague Janet Gornick was greeted with disbelief when she mentioned in passing that the top 25 hedge fund managers make an average of $850 million a year. But her number was correct.
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With great wealth comes both great power and a separation from the concerns of ordinary citizens. What the very rich want, they often get; but what they want is often harmful to the rest of the nation. There are some public-spirited billionaires, some very wealthy liberals. But they arent typical of their class.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/bernie-sanders-tax.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
This is a good read, it's a bummer about the four paragraph rule.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,272 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
murielm99
(30,712 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Thats funny.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I guess they're worried, or scared, or it's getting under their skin and on their last raw nerve.
Interesting, no?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Remember that?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I've only ever seen hosts locking threads in the LBN forum, or when something is in the wrong forum/topic.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)That kick was after the duplicate post was posted.
Or the OP here just didn't know that the other post existed, as that happens from time to time everywhere.
OR the poster was excited to share a viewpoint they saw at some point in the day and rushed home to post it, not knowing it had been posted already.
But yeah. "On their last raw nerve" is certainly the Occam's Razor to go to.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)I have seen as many as 5 OPs on the same news routinely.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=76684
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
yaesu
(8,020 posts)made by all full time minimum wage workers in the USA combined. This is the kind of thing Bernie & the rest of us are fighting to end.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided