Opinion: 'If you’re bothered by Bernie’s millionaire status, vote for him,' ebruenig writes
Sen. Bernie Sanders during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. By Elizabeth Bruenig Elizabeth Bruenig Opinion columnist focusing on politics, religion and morality in public life. Email Bio Follow Opinion columnist April 10 at 1:37 PM So Sen. Bernie Sanders made more than 1 million dollars, much thanks to his best-selling book. Rarely is turning such a profit in an industry as dicey as publishing better news for your enemies than you, but so it goes: Sanders’s critics are thrilled.
But back to Bernie: Is there anything to say in defense of a guy who made more than 1 million dollars in a particular calendar year? First, Sanders’s complaint isn’t that millionaires exist per se — there are millionaires in democratic socialist countries such as Sweden, Finland and Norway — but that the United States’ super-rich are symptomatic of a system that churns out a small class of extremely wealthy people who rule over the vast remainder.
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