Apparently Congress-critter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has dropped, in campaign funds, about $50k to go to Puerto Rico to protest the entitlement of the rich. Now the article makes a good point that those who protest the excesses of capitalism just might do well to avoid indulging in them themselves, but the thought that comes to me is the question of whether campaign finance law really ought to allow any politician to use campaign funds to buy things like luxury boxes at Bad Bunny concerts. At the very least, her supporters really ought to ask themselves whether this kind of thing is really what they were voting for--AOC living high on the hog while her supporters scrape to find an affordable apartment.
It is, really, the same kind of Politburo behavior that observers of Communism have always noted. The leaders live like kings (which they are in effect) while the peasants suffer. If Karl Marx weren't already being tormented in Hell, he might find some time to spin in his grave over this.
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