Even ThinkProgress can see BS's 'Millionaire Problem'

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16. He was apparently a millionaire before selling books.

All that time he bashed people like him, many millionaires due to hard work or simple good fortune, many decent people. It is not that Bernie is rich that is insulting, it's the level of lack of disclosure that he has seemingly done to avoid letting people know that.

A lot of people that have bashed officeholders over using the office that voters gave them to enrich themselves are falling over themselves to defend Bernie. A lot of already well off authors have given the money from book sales all to charity, why didn't Bernie do that since he likely was already a millionaire AND he is set to draw a Congressional pension of around $75,000 per year for the rest of his life. We have rich people living where I live, I know that directly, but I can tell you that for the other citizens of my county, a $75,000 annual salary for life is walking in tall cotton.

Another point. Try contacting a literary agent and asking that person whether he or she will represent you to book publishers. You will be told that unless you are a college friend, or family, or a well known politician, or a celebrity or already massively rich and well known, they have zero interest in you. Or better yet, try sending a manuscript to a publisher, if you can even find a way to do that (most stop taking manuscript submissions by unknown writers years ago), your manuscript will get read only if a person foraging for food in a dumpster find it. So NO, HELL NO, Bernie was not some John Doe writer that struck the bigtime and you should not dismiss concerns about him by saying "any writer" because any writer has a better chance of getting struck by three lightening bolts over three days that they have of having a well known publisher pay them royalties for their book.