Jeff Bezos' newspaper — The Washington Post — was not happy that I recently discussed how billionaires don't "earn" their wealth, they abuse market power to amass wealth while millions of Americans bear the cost.
There aren't a lot of billionaires in an absolute sense, but the proportion of billionaires that are upset with my comments are quite high.
To a working person, and to working people, "earn" means something: the calluses on your hands, the aches in your joints, the way we put ourselves through school with our first job.
I think that we are in an "emperor with no clothes" moment when it comes to the American economy and our democracy.
The Virginia redistricting maps were just overturned by judges that are largely financed by a movement of billionaires.
American inequality is at an absolute peak. We have to ask ourselves if this is how we want to live as a society — if we want 3,400 billionaires to be prioritized over more than 300 million people.
When we question the legitimacy of that power structure, the people at the top are going to be very mad.
Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post, he laid off some of the highest-qualified journalists that made it an American institution, so that he could turn it into a mouthpiece that launders his personal agenda and opinions.
He then uses this mouthpiece to take aim at politicians that want to question the deeply unequal and unjust distribution of power in America.
They want to continue to threaten and undercut those who say that democracy belongs at the ballot box — and that economic and political power should belong with the people of this country, not the very few.
But together, we’ve built a movement fighting against entrenched power and for transformative change, from Medicare for All to democratizing fundraising power in politics.
Help us continue the fight with a grassroots contribution today.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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