2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I feel the Bern. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)the middle class and poor people. We don't like selfish rich people who only think about their own interests. We also don't like other selfish people who think only of their own interests and never of the interests of our whole society and all of us and finding a compromise that works for everyone.
So it isn't about rich people v. poor people. It is about the selfish (many but not by any means all of whom are rich) and those who can find a good middle ground between supporting their own interests and those of others.
A poor person who steals and will kill for money is no better than a rich person who does it though the rich person may hire others to actually get their hands bloody.
The poor person who steals and kills (such as through chemical spills, etc.) will probably go to jail. In our current system, the rich person usually goes free.