Morning Joe bends over backwards NOT to mention Sanders

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27. Ugh. Nantucket (adorable) is in Massachusetts. I don't like to think of him here.

I don't know if Kerry spends time in Nantucket. However, even when he was a Senator, he spent almost no time in his home in Beacon Hill, Boston. He was in Pennsylvania (is that where Teresa's home is?) and the D.C. area. His successor, Markey, lives in his wife's home in Maryland and also is never in Massachusetts. No one seems to mind.



I hate to be a broken record about this, but talking about income inequality is not that huge. Private employers determine income for employees in the private sector. All the feds are going to do about that is maybe raise the minimum wage now and again and/or require disclosures, which the SEC also requires of publicly traded corporations anyway. Any new disclosure law, if any, will exempt small business (very broadly defined) anyway and is likely therefore to be window dressing.

Talking about wealth inequality, however, is huge--and, AFAIK, only Bernie is doing that.