The White House will be occupied by a person with oligarchical levels of wealth and income...

[Triana]

... Once you understand that, the attacks about Bernie’s returns, tax rate and deductions look very much like swift-boat style attempts to attack his strength and distract attention from his opponent.

So what does oligarchic income look like?



Income inequality: Candidates for the Democratic party nomination

The Clintons income of $28 million for 2014 is 136 times Sanders’ income for the same period. And the Sanders are doing pretty well, they had income and Social Security benefits that totaled over 200k last year, putting them in the top 5% of Americans. However, the Clintons’ income of $28 million place them in a different league entirely. The numbers may seem abstract, so I’ve graphed them. Sanders’ income is less than 1% of what the Clintons made in 2014. Where did the $28 million come from?

2014 BILL HILLARY
SPEECHES $9,730,000 $10,492,000
CONSULTING $6,417,475
AUTHOR $36,442 $5,563,867

Tax returns and an oligarchic presidency:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/12/1525535/-Tax-returns-and-an-oligarchic-presidency

[msongs]

1. so you don't like FDR? oh well nt

[Triana]

2. It's not about FDR - or even wealth-nice try at distraction though (again)

It's about the pretentious hypocrisy of Hillary supporters smearing Sanders over HIS tax returns when the CLINTONS are hella wealthier. In case you missed THIS part:

...the attacks about Bernie’s returns, tax rate and deductions look very much like swift-boat style attempts to attack his strength and distract attention from his opponent.

[CrowCityDem]

3. Equating a person's moral and financial worth is pathetic. Being rich doesn't make you evil.

[truedelphi]

6. It all depends. Did the rich person

HAVE to sell out the very people they relied on to vote for them?

HOW often did that person's daily activities involve bombing countries back to the Stone Age?

And when they continually flip flopped on issues ranging from XL Pipeline to fracking to the TPP, did they ever realize that when someone flip flops continually, it often indicates that the individual is not an honest person to begin with?

[amborin]

8. not if one obtains their wealth honestly, and has integrity...but that's not the case here

[CrowCityDem]

10. She did a job and got paid for it.

That's more honest than taking a golden parachute after bankrupting a college.

[amborin]

7. Exactly! They've been swiftboating Bernie all along, this is the newest swift boat meme

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. Swiftboating by the none-too-swift.

The transparent ineptitude of that campaign's "sneaky" tricks would be comical if so much weren't at stake.

[Dem2]

9. You left out a few.

Third Way
DLC
Corporatist
Triangulation
corporate shill
bankster
warmonger

[gollygee]

11. That has almost always been the case. N/t