You would expect higher quality politicians, considering how rich “public servants” can get in a country succumbing to government hypertrophy. But instead of the best and brightest, we get only the greediest:

In Los Angeles next month, the tony auction house Bonhams will present “Legacy of a Stateswoman: The Personal Collection of Senator Dianne Feinstein,” an auction of some of the far-left former senator’s possessions. Be sure to show up with a full checkbook, as you’ll likely have to plunk down as much as $100,000 for Irish/American painter William Alexander Coulter’s “Ships Sailing in the San Francisco Bay with Fort Point in the Distance.” …

Then again, if fine art is not your thing, there is Feinstein’s platinum and diamond ring, “centering a round diamond weighing 4.14 carats, flanked by tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 0.50 carat total, size 8,” and yours for — again, if bidding is fierce — around $65,000.

Bargain hunters might pick up one of her vases for a mere $6,000–$8,000.

This is, as the name of the auction informs us, Dianne Feinstein’s legacy: after a lifetime in government, she was a fantastically wealthy woman. And apparently, since Bonhams explicitly relates the exorbitantly priced baubles of her wealth to her political career, that is the message Feinstein or her estate wants to send to the American people: if you want to get rich, get into politics.

In the olden days, people got rich buy creating the railroads or building the steel and oil industries. Such figures are now denounced as “robber barons” by our Marxist ruling class, which achieves fabulous wealth without providing society with any benefit in return. Democrat politicians are tapeworms that grow fat as their host starves.

On a tip from R F.