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Progressives Tell Dems Thinking of Capitulating to GOP on Shutdown: 'You Cave, You Lose'
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Oh good. Bernie is considered a "progressive" now? A millionaire with multiple houses, who's taken in no homeless people with his megawealth, has only ever donated proceeds from books he had ghostwritten when put under duress is a leading progressive?
We need to start electing real people.
This is why no one loves you
I’m sure they are so progressive that they’ve housed a ton of unhoused people and freely give up their own food as well. It’s the only measure of progressive!
/s because of today’s political climate
Oh no, you see they're "not rich enough to make a difference", so they're allowed to do nothing. Since the definition is intrinsic to them they'll never be "rich enough" to help and they'll always "help when I'm rich enough to make a difference". So they can always be good people while doing nothing and they can always chastise the rich for "not doing enough" no matter how much they're helping because "if they were that rich they'd help more"
It's really beautiful actually how perfect the system is.
Most of his money is from book sales and he owns 2 houses. A $2-3m networth is far from mega wealth.
He also lives in two cities, which makes the two houses make more sense.
That's at least 1 more home than he needs to live, and even $1m counts as megawealth compared to the national average.
This is an incredibly naive/underinformed take dude. $1 million is like the absolute bare minimum a single person at retirement age needs to continue putting a roof over their head and food on their table.
I can kinda understand getting upset at someone owning two homes, but considering a million dollars "megawealth" is just out of touch with reality.
The reality is, anyone can gain that kind of wealth by their 40s/50s if they are financially literate at a young age. You can make a median income and still come out a millionaire if you invest even a small amount consistently from late teens/early 20s. Bernie is an old man, so anyone his age that did that could easily be a multimillionaire without trying too hard, even with a middle class income. Now, I’m not sure how he obtained his wealth, just saying that millionaires aren’t all evil or born rich, in fact most didn’t come from wealth.
The main issue with many Americans not getting that far is poor financial literacy. Most don’t figure it out until their 30s, so they end up behind. Obviously, I won’t include those who were born in poverty as that is a whole other issue and is very difficult to overcome.
Exactly, especially if you're investing in a 401k, 403b, or IRA.
The national average networth is $1.06mn. $1mn would technically be below average.
Who would you like to see elected instead?
Someone with a net worth at or below US average (~$200,000.00), who actually remembers trying to make ends meet on minimum wage, who owns no more than one home (preferably someone who rents). Oh, and preferably someone whose earnings mostly come from either a full-time W2 job or gig income (Uber, Lyft, etc.), not book sales or capital investment.
You do you, but personally I'm more focused on a politician's actions and policies, rather than their financial situation and background.
Bernie has been consistently on the right side of most issues for his whole political career from where I'm standing. To me, the fact that he's 84 years old and only worth a couple of million actually sets him apart from many of his rich, corporate owned colleagues.
So how do you feel about AOC?
Not a huge fan, but I find her ballooning bank account compared to her salary to be the most damning thing about her.
Lol, she's worth about 60k, give or take.