COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Bernie Sanders: Russia
and Stormy Daniels distract us from real problem of inequality
More than a million
viewers watch online as Sanders joins likes of Michael Moore and Elizabeth
Warren to talk poverty
Sorry, Bernie, I have a hard time taking you seriously.
You live in a country where inequality is treated as
something close to the collateral damage produced year after year in all your
wars.
Indeed, inequality is actually understood by many Americans
with power as a necessary part of the economy, with its absence threatening
inefficiency.
You work in a place, Washington, where privilege is taken
for granted, a form of spoils in the political wars, with gold-plated medical
care for politicians, gold-plated pensions for politicians, and all kinds of
other privileges.
The entire political machine is driven by immense amounts of
money from special interests, none of them the least apologetic about buying
what they want and none of them the least interested in inequality.
You live in a place where not a single politician retires
without having accumulated millions, no matter with whatever limited resources
they may have started their careers. Clinton, Johnson, Obama, Gore – you name
the American politician, the story is the same, virtually without exception.
You actually cannot name a former American President or
Senator who is not a multi-millionaire, with a number of billionaires among
them. Indeed, your own net worth would be envied by many Americans, as would
that of Elizabeth Warren and certainly that of Michael Moore.
When I read your words, I can't help thinking of someone
like Jerimiah preaching about all the sin while being ignored. Or Jesus
preaching about rich men entering the Kingdom of God.
And you know what they did to Jesus.
Although those comparisons are inadequate. Neither Jerimiah
nor Jesus was a multi-millionaire, as you very much are, Bernie.
