2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Greg Palast: How California is being stolen from Sanders right now [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in the billionaire class. Fees for top status-symbol speakers have zoomed to 6 figures just the way prices for top status-symbol art have soared to 8 figures and more, but for many of these people and their organizations it's all chump change.
That's how she can become wealthy in a very few years after decades of not bothering to chase money and not having any to speak of. Just accept a dozen entirely legal speaking engagements that require maybe a half day's investment, including handshaking but excluding travel, and there's your first million.
Your notion that only Bernie and his followers feel this concentration of wealth in the hands of a few needs to be fixed is 100% wrong, btw. Involved liberals always fought it. Even many conservatives now realize they have created a serious problem, though it is still basically the liberals and others on the left who recognize that it is actually an enormous problem that we must fix if our democracy is to survive.