by Ian Angus from Green Left.
This article illustrates the extravagant lifestyle of a member of the 1% in the US who through their connections and wealth shape America's domestic and foreign policies. People like the Rennerts are the lead killers of the planet and destroyers of communities and the lives of working people.
But it is not such people that I like to focus on. Rather it is the system of capitalism that produces such people that we must understand and change.