Warren, Sanders, and Biden Preach Diversity, They Don’t Live It - Frontpagemag frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/wa…
Senator Bernie Sanders lives in a $476,000 colonial in Burlington VT. The house in New North End is one of three homes that he and his wife own. Burlington VT is 85% white and less than 5% black.
Bernie's vacation place in North Hero, Vermont, by Lake Champlain, is over 97% white and only 0.25% black.
Senator Elizabeth Warren lives in a $3.5 million Victorian home a few blocks from Harvard Square built in 1890. Cambridge is 82% white and Asian, and 10% black. Half the population has an MA or a PhD.
Neighborhood Nine or Radcliffe, where Warren lives, is even whiter than Cambridge in general.
Her home is a four-hour drive away from Bernie’s. And it’s a long way from the foreclosed Oklahoma homes that she was buying and flipping to make a profit.
Her home is a four-hour drive away from Bernie’s. And it’s a long way from the foreclosed Oklahoma homes that she was buying and flipping to make a profit.
Once Warren arrived in Washington DC, she quickly bought into the real estate market, expecting to stay around for a while. Her $800,000 condo in Penn Quarter puts her close to the National Mall and has an 8% African-American population in a city that is otherwise some 47% black.
And then there’s Joe Biden. Or, as he likes to call himself, “Middle Class Joe”. One of Middle-Class Joe’s earliest homes was a 1723 estate sprawling over three acres formerly owned by a member of the Du Pont family.
His current four acre spread in Greenville is in an area that is 85% white and less than 5% black. That’s the home he owns.
In reality, Biden lives in McLean, in a $6 million miniature version of the White House with crystal chandeliers, a home theater, and parking for 20 cars. The McLean area of Virginia is 71% white and less than 2% black.
Finally, Biden has a $3 million six-bedroom vacation home in Rehoboth Beach with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, 3 indoor fireplaces, and a dog shower. Rehoboth Beach boasts 7 black residents. That’s not a percentage. It’s 7 black people.
Democrats are an urban and coastal party, but their ruling class is not fond of big cities. While their political machines may control major cities, their elites live in smaller upper-class bicoastal communities with vacation homes that take them even further from those they rule
While a quarter of Democrat primary voters are black, Sanders, Warren, and Biden live in areas that are far less diverse than the party they are competing to represent. And it’s very clear that diversity is a policy they advocate, not a reality that they live.
The Democrat leadership isn’t just out of touch with the country, but with their own voters. Sanders, Biden, and Warren represent the hypocrisy of a party divided between middle class suburbanites and urban voters.
The leadership, Warren, Sanders, and Biden live in comfortable wealthy enclaves far from the misery that the political machines they head inflict on the inner cities they occasionally visit.
Warren and Sanders, who are millionaires, rant about the super-rich while buying six figure homes, they denounce white supremacy while living in areas that are whiter than anything in Jim Crow territory.
And Joe Biden somehow commands the black vote while living in a place that is less than 2% black and vacationing in a place with a grand total of 7 black people. That’s the Democrat’s idea of diversity.
There’s something deeply wrong with the race-baiting of the Democrats and of their hypocrisy about it. Democrat policies are destructive, but their hypocrisy is also corrosive.
In an election where candidates pretend to be authentic by becoming more radical, their hypocrisy reveals their contempt for voters. Their commitment to diversity is made on someone else’s behalf and at someone else’s expense.
Biden, Sanders, and Warren preach diversity. But if you want to see what they really believe, go look at where they live.
