IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Bernie Sanders is cool with capitalism for himself, but no one else.
Of course, he is exactly like other wealthy Americans: You provide a service or produce something people want to buy, and you go from disheveled lawmaker from Vermont to millionaire disheveled lawmaker from Vermont.
Only in America!
Other millionaires and billionaires can explain their riches like Bernie does. “I started a Web site that sold books, and now we sell everything.” “I invented a way to search the Internet with ease and accuracy.” “I invested in companies and helped them grow.” “I run a pharmaceutical company that cures diseases and produces medication so sick people can live better lives.”
Bernie’s book-writing, in other words, isn’t any nobler than the paths taken by other millionaires.
Au contraire. Sanders got rich telling people how bad rich people are, giving him a richness of spirit those other, nasty rich people will never have. Or something.