The Slumming Socialists
'Tis a golden age to be a cosplay revolutionary! After all, where else could you make $174,000 a year and that be a significant downgrade to your annual income? After Graham Platner's implosion this past week, we've finally gotten at least some national attention on the fact that the far left continues to elevate those who are least likely to benefit from any kind of socialist revolution. The central figures of the movement are not of the working class but are instead multimillionaires living the life of luxury while simultaneously railing against the evil capitalist system that allowed them to be so obscenely rich in the first place. Ironically, there exists a core group of leftists who, at least in theory, are for redistributing the wealth, yet they themselves seem perfectly content to be among the richest 1% of all Americans. The question now becomes, why do so many wealthy leftists attempt to campaign on behalf of the working class when they themselves have zero under...
