Whether or not they were born into wealth is irrelevant to my claim, which is:

> Politicians in America are traditionally wealthy people.

Of the 17 presidents from the last century, only three (and just nine total) are listed as having a net worth of less than one million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

America is a country ruled by the wealthy. Both by wealthy politicians and wealthy corporations.

As much as that statement is usually decried as "edgy teenage take", it's actually backed by political science [0]

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

You might want to quote the sentence at the top of the Wikipedia table in your link, that says this is their "peak net worth" and "may occur after that president has left office".

Read through the list in the link below. McKinley, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Obama and Biden can't be considered to have been born into families of wealth.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/11/05/the-net-wort... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Early_life_(1942%E2%...

> can't be considered to have been born into families of wealth

And you, in turn, might want to quote the sentence at the top of my previous reply where I state that I am not talking about being born into wealth. 12, by the way, is still a small minority. The majority of American presidents were millionaires. It's pretty cut and dry.