Hypocrisy
Someone who supports forced wealth redistribution who busts his ass to hang on to his own millions is a hypocrite.
"Earned" or "unearned" doesn't have jack to do with it.
Warren Buffett, who supports higher taxes on the rich but is spending God knows how much in legal fees fighting a billion-dollar tax assessment, is a hypocrite, at least on that particular issue.
I suspect a lot of millionaires making liberal noises is simple self-defense. A millionaire who is on the side of the Democrats gets a pass on his wealth and consumption, while those who oppose the Democrats are attacked for their wealth regardless of what they do with their money. Look at the last election.
"Your definition of socialist is a bit too self-serving. You seem to cavalierly apply it to anyone who doesn’t meet your expectations, or who is better at your game than you are."
Aside from this comment, The last time I used the word "socialist" in a post or comment was last December.
"I must have struck some kind of nerve, TB, you spent practically your whole rebuttal to my post attacking two sentences, and you failed to comment on anything else."
Really? You said Washington could "afford to be" a great man. I made a short post pointing out that FDR was a hell of a lot richer than Washington, and look where you went with it.
All I know is the former distrusted government power and turned down personal power, and the latter thought government power should be drastically increased, and health permitting, probably would have happily served seven terms.
That's the important part, not how rich they were.
It occurs to me that if making long-winded responses to short statements is now a problem here, you might be in deep trouble.