Bernie Sanders and the Myth of the 1 Percent

[Uncle Joe]

The very rich are richer than people imagine.

(snip)

This line of attack is, however, deeply stupid. Politicians who support policies that would raise their own taxes and strengthen a social safety net they’re unlikely to need aren’t being hypocrites; if anything, they’re demonstrating their civic virtue.

But failure to understand what hypocrisy means isn’t 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.

(snip)

Even now, most Americans don’t seem to realize just how rich today’s 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.

(snip)

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 aren’t 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.

[George II]

1. ....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/128775983

[Uncle Joe]

2. Thanks for the heads-up George.

[murielm99]

3. Thank you, George.

[Tipperary]

4. You and another Sanders' supporter both have posted the same op.

That’s funny.

[NurseJackie]

5. I guess they're worried, or scared, or it's getting under their skin...

I guess they're worried, or scared, or it's getting under their skin and on their last raw nerve.

Interesting, no?

[cwydro]

7. You know, I remember when people would delete dupes.

Remember that?

[NurseJackie]

9. Self-deleting makes sense to me too. Seems courteous.

I've only ever seen hosts locking threads in the LBN forum, or when something is in the wrong forum/topic.

[Decoy of Fenris]

8. Or the first post was 3/4ths of the way down the page until it got kicked an hour and a half later.

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.

[BlueFlorida]

6. This is not new

I have seen as many as 5 OPs on the same news routinely.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=76684

[Go Vols]

10. ty Uncle Joe

[yaesu]

11. Wall Street bonuses totaled $27 billion last year which is 3 times more money

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.