Bernie can't handle the economy because he's irresponsible with his personal finances!!!

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271. I understand the point

and you clearly are unable to see beyond your class prism. You seem to be addressing some point, I'm guessing one person made in a thread somewhere. Yet in addressing a minor point, you construct an argument directed toward a small percentage of economically privileged people who would think the amount of money you speak of is modest, so as to convey that Sanders is one of them. To even think like that suggests a worldview so far removed from ordinary working Americans that it is completely tone death. So yeah, if you're talking to the country club set, that is probably a reasonable approach, but not if you're talking to people who are not well off. For those of us less fortunate, we are met with insults because we fail to understand how insignificant our lives and interests are. So excuse me for introducing a note of reality. Clearly you aren't addressing the plebs such as myself. The arrogant privilege around here is thick and shows that many of you can't begin to imagine what the lives of people who make the median income or less are possibly like. Forgive me for exceeding my place by entering a thread designated for people who think $175k a year is modest, and that he has to keep two residences. The median family of four maintains one residence on $47k a year, and Sanders income is 3.7x that amount. Your message isn't directed at them. It's directed at those privileged enough to imagine Sanders wealth is modest.
You all couldn't be clearer about the fact that you see people like me, without the class privilege to imagine ever earning that amount of money, are beneath you. That is why your brand of politics is destined to fail. It is based on exclusion and complete contempt for anyone other than a select few exactly like yourselves.

My guess if Sanders saw the kind of elitist arrogance that was being carried out in his name, he would be appalled. But many of you will continue to insult people because that kind of arrogant dismissal is central to your political worldview that excludes the majority of Americans as beneath contempt.