Why I Still Stand With the 1 Percent

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…
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