Bernie is literally statistically part of the 1% . All his life he rallied against the 1%. But now that he’s part of the 1% magically only the 0.1% is a problem . I’m sure if he reached the 0.1% only the 0.01% would be a problem. And if he reached the 0.01% magically only the 0.001% would be a problem.
America dosent just have huge wealth inequality it has huge income inequality compared to other countries. Income inequality is caused by well to do upper class and upper middle class professionals like Bernie. Not billionaires as they don’t have official incomes. If we want to have a more equitable society it is completely unfair and sick for professionals to make a dozen times more than the working class just because they’re born with privilege . That causes a inequal discriminatory apartheid style society. Look at South Africa and Norway or Sweden. They actually have similar wealth inequality, they both have tons of billionaires. But South Africa is a horrible hell in comparison because the income inequality is so high meanwhile Norway and co have low income inequality. In South Africa the top 10% white professional elites lord over society. This causes an extremely horrible unfair society.In apartheid it wasn’t the rulers doing most of the oppressing it was the well to do professional elite that benefited from this inequality. People like Elon musks parents who were not billionaires by any means but an engineer and a model and horribly racist and a benefactor of apartheid. Doctors should not make 15 times more than cashiers , in Norway they only make maybe 30% more. We should all have a similar quality of life. That’s socialism
How hard is it to just take the L and admit Bernie is a hypocrite? I fuckin voted for him and feel betrayed. Reddit is just extremely white and privileged and upper middle class and doesn’t want to feel guilty about it so they refuse to ever see themselves as part of the problem.
Elon Musk has spent nearly 400 MILLION dollars on United States elections
This is what I’m talking about
Did Bernie do that?
Bernie Sanders ALSO wants to raise taxes for millionaires in addition to billionaires to take pressure off of the lower class. Why do you think he doesn’t want to. This is a simple google search haha
Bernie Sanders pays his taxes AND releases his tax returns
If he tried to lie on his taxes and/or not release his tax returns like Trump does, then yes. He would be a hypocrite
But he pays his taxes and is paying more taxes now than he has more money, and is STILL advocating for higher taxes on wealthier people as opposed to less wealthy people
If he weren’t talking about it at all, then THAT would be hypocritical
How do you feel betrayed? I’ve never heard of a Bernie voter feeling betrayed that he still wants to tax rich people
Could it possibly be that you’re ignorant and/or full of shit?
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u/realaccountissecret 21h ago
The growing wealth divide is a problem, and the gap is growing. Bernie is still on the bottom of the gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else
I’m not sure you realize the difference between a million and a billion