Opinion: Welcome to the 1 percent club, Bernie Sanders
By Karen Tumulty Karen Tumulty Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 16 at 6:18 PM The 1 percent, whom Bernie Sanders has spent so much of his career railing against, have a message for the senator from Vermont: Welcome to the club.
By comparison, in 2014, before his first presidential run, he and his wife, Jane, reported an income of about $206,000, the bulk of it from his Senate salary. No one should be assigned a moral value based on where they happen to land on the income scale. Great riches do not necessarily prevent individuals from identifying with the downtrodden or from devoting their lives to bettering the circumstances of others. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it, though he was called a traitor to his class. Bill and Melinda Gates are turning out to be two of the greatest philanthropists the world has ever seen.
On Monday night, during a town hall on Fox News, Sanders dodged a bit when co-host Bret Baier asked whether the kind of financial success he has enjoyed is “the definition of capitalism, the American Dream?” As far back as the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the love of wealth is “at the bottom of all that the Americans do.” Since then, our feelings have grown more complicated. Where we might revere people who earn great riches through skill and ingenuity, we are often suspicious — along with envious — of those who have their fortunes handed to them. Or those who, as Sanders did, cash in on sudden celebrity.
We live in an era of oversharing on social media. We assume that technology has swept up every bit of data about us. Still, most people remain reluctant to tell even their closest friends how much money they make or where it comes from.
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