70% of the US population supported the war in Iraq, assuming all the 1%ers are in that number that still leaves 69% of the people.  The housing crisis was caused by giving loans to the masses that were not qualified, certainly the person filling out the loan application shares blame for the crash.  The notion that some big bad elite is holding the rest of us back is nonsense, we each have a great control over our situation.  This hippie will lose like Bernie is going to lose.