Senator Sander’s use of “we” is annoying.
Is he afraid that the use of “I” would not carry sufficient gravitas? Or perhaps expressing his viewpoint as a personal viewpoint would make him too responsible for his words?
In any event, his “we” has no majesty to it, it reminds me more of Gollum from LOTR.
Well, heck! There’s your answer. Bernie has multiple personalities and “we” is his personal, personal pronoun.
It’s the Ayn Rand “we” from Anthem. Having no sense of self, the protagonist speaks only in the collectivist first person plural, until his epiphany in the last chapter.
Sanders can’t be Gollum. Gollum is addicted to the “precious,” a magic ring. And to Bernie all wealth must be shared, and there is no magic and nothing is sacred.