The radical anxiety of America's millionaires

Millionaires are key to overthrowing the oligarchy. And they're with us. Together, we are the 99.9998 percent.

Nope, not a billionaire.

One more time: We are the 99.9998 percent.

From sea to shining sea, billionaires are only 801 strong. By contrast, we are 340 million!

That means, there have never been so many potential revolutionaries in one country. This is solidarity. Let’s act like it. Let’s potentiate us.

This is new for me, but I won’t hear of divisions. It’s downright deceptive to slice us non-billionaires into a layer cake of working class, middle class, and upperclass. It’s deceptive to split the cake in half and call us reds and blues.

When it comes to democracy, we’re all in it together.

(Except those 801 billionaires, for whom, bless them, democracy doesn’t work.)

More controversially: it doesn’t matter—for purposes of our solidarity on behalf of liberal democracy—who is college-educated or not, coastal or heartland, male or nonmale, white or nonwhite. It certainly doesn’t matter, for solidarity purposes, how you think about parlor-game stuff like what cars are cool, whether NPR is boring, or whether fireworks should be illegal because they upset dogs.