Why I Still Stand With the 1 Percent |
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Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as “Occupy Wall Street,” I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: “Don’t be afraid to say it: ‘We are the 1 percent.’”
Of course, I wasn’t wealthy then, and I’m not wealthy now. I wrote at the time about driving a worn-out Ford Windstar, raising three children in a hundred-year-old house with faulty wiring, and wondering how we would ever afford retirement. But I also recognized something that many Americans instinctively understood: A country that begins dividing itself by class is a country already drifting toward collapse.
Just as decent Americans are morally obligated to stand against racism and antisemitism, I believed then – and believe now – that Americans have a duty to stand against the demonization of success itself. Once a society decides that achievement is evidence of exploitation, envy becomes a political weapon. History shows where that road leads.
For years, conservatives who warned that the Democratic Party was drifting toward socialism were mocked as alarmists. “Nobody wants socialism,” we were told.........