2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you know a really rich person? [View all]Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Hillary Clinton has come to believe it is her birthright to be President. She has also spent the last twenty-five years surrounded by sycophants who either strongly identify with her or are just jockeying for favor, but whatever their sincerity they are all too happy to reinforce her sense of entitlement.
The problem of course this is the *exact* same phenomenon displayed by Mitt Romney.
I deal with the extremely wealthy regularly and I find it hard to generalize. I know people who were broke college students less than a decade ago who have completely lost touch with reality and I know third-generation heirs who live far closer to the real world than I do. I also know some people with assets in the hundreds of millions who are completely incognito. Nothing about them would give away that they were anything other than affluent professionals.