American Atlantis

Dust to dust. Silicon Valley’s Congressman Ro Khanna, who years ago won his place in Washington with a pro-business, generally moderate Democratic platform and has since refashioned himself into a radical leftist who rejects the concept of private property, spent the week leading up to America’s 250^th birthday waging class war on the technology industry, and lowering the threshold of his proposed national billionaire “tax” (the euphemism we are using now for seizing assets) from $1 billion to $50 million. It was quite the pearl-clutching performance from a man who has himself amassed a quarter billion-dollar fortune while in office, decrying the innate unfairness of America, the country that made this child of immigrants one of the richest men in history.