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The squabble around Bernie's demand for private planes is hilarious. Does anyone fail to understand that your socialist overlords will demand the luxuries YOU are denied? THEY will have immense carbon footprints and soar overhead in jets while YOU live in 3rd World squalor.
For all the leftist whining about whether any given failed state practiced "true" socialism, the one thing that ALL leftist/socialist/communist states have in common is the elites live very, very well. They never embrace the hardscrabble lifestyle they force upon everyone else.
Socialist overlords will tell you they deserve and need their luxuries, by virtue of their political piety and important missions. Burning a zillion tons of carbon to jet to a global warming conference is "necessary," unlike whatever you lumpy proles think you need airplanes for.
Socialized medicine means you little people have to wait in line forever and be denied care when rationing kicks in, but rest assured your socialist overlords will receive the finest care with no waiting. They didn't exactly rush to submit themselves to Obamacare, did they?
When you complain about these arrangements - for the very short period of time you're ALLOWED to complain - you will be told your masters "need" reliable electricity, air travel, cars, comfortable housing, medical care, and all the other things you can't have.
Under socialist ideology, the people who run the State are the most important people in the world. They need travel, communications, and good health. And they're the most virtuous people in the world, too - they deserve all the luxuries denied to the masses.
You want to see what real, hardcore "income inequality" looks like? Look at a socialist or communist society. Check out the difference between how the elite live and how their suffering, impoverished people struggle to survive.
And remember, no matter what you think of income inequality in free societies, upward mobility is FAR easier than under economically stagnant, rigidly hierarchical socialism. There are fewer tickets to the good life under socialism and they're much harder to get. /end
