Blur-Brain: Bernie Sanders has been redistributing campaign funds to family members. This is a phenomenon that Oleg Atbashian (founder of the People’s Cube) observed while growing up under Soviet rule in his book “Shakedown Socialism” where no matter how much Soviets were brainwashed to believe that everyone is equal, apparatchiks often made extra efforts to see that their own children were treated more equal than most. more
Some politicians have their campaigns take out high interest loans – from themselves, their allies, their family members – like 15% every two weeks – possibly higher in some jurisdictions.
One example: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/14/local/me-napolitano14
I have Oleg’s book. It’s an excellent explanation of how repellent and fucked up things were in the Soviet Union….and a harbinger of our future if we continue to allow the Progressive National Socialist Fascist Communists to keep running our country into the ground.
During the Siege of Leningrad, when roughly 1,000,000 people starved to death, the Mayor and his staff ate and drank the best that Europe had to offer. Their children ate ham and cheese sandwiches while cannibalism swept the city.
Socialism has ALWAYS been a tiered system, and will ALWAYS continue to be.
It cannot be otherwise.