"The Pitchforks Are Coming... For Us Plutocrats"

Good new piece from Nick Hanauer about inequality and the way and why the rich must fight it.

I adore the final two paragraphs: 

My family, the Hanauers, started in Germany selling feathers and pillows. They got chased out of Germany by Hitler and ended up in Seattle owning another pillow company. Three generations later, I benefited from that. Then I got as lucky as a person could possibly get in the Internet age by having a buddy in Seattle named Bezos. I look at the average Joe on the street, and I say, “There but for the grace of Jeff go I.” Even the best of us, in the worst of circumstances, are barefoot, standing by a dirt road, selling fruit. We should never forget that, or forget that the United States of America and its middle class made us, rather than the other way around.

Or we could sit back, do nothing, enjoy our yachts. And wait for the pitchforks.

-- The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats - Nick Hanauer - POLITICO Magazine