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Maybe you should choose your words more carefully, Walter Bright. To eviscerate means to disembowel. Nobody is pushing to physically hurt the rich. But people are upset that their standards of living are declining while every opportunity to give more money to the rich is executed.

Bernie Sanders asked for taxing the rich and the corporations. Taxing someone does not mean disembowel.



I know what the word means, and I am sure you understand it is not meant to be taken literally.

For example, do you remember when AOC proudly wore a dress with the words "Eat the rich" emblazoned on it? Nobody accused her of suggesting cannibalism.

Bernie Sanders has frequently stated that billionaires should not exist. He used to excoriate millionaires, until he became one himself.




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