DSA organizers such as Gustavo Gordillo are going public, but the more airtime they get, the more their wealthy backgrounds — and their hypocrisy — are exposed. Today on The Editors, Rich asks Charlie what he makes of them.
“The people we’re discussing invariably are benefiting from the work of others, work that was conducted within a capitalist system. And what they’re arguing, in effect, is that their parents or grandparents did very well within a free market, and that free market should be abolished,” explains Charlie. “And I see that as pulling up the ladder, leaving them in an exalted position and ensuring that everyone else will remain in the mire.”
“I loathe what it does to American conceptions of work and virtue,” Charlie says. “It’s always the case, isn’t it, that the people who cannot see the link between virtue and hard work and success were not the ones that were virtuous or did the hard work. Of course they think that there is a gap between what they put in and what they get out — there is! They didn’t do anything to deserve their station in life.”
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