The bottom line from this column by Michelle Goldberg:
… people with thousands of dollars in debt are shamed, while those with millions of dollars in debt rule the world.
Stacy Abrams appears in the title, she is just one of several examples.
… Kemp, Abrams’s opponent, a multimillionaire who is being sued for allegedly failing to repay a $500,000 loan used to buy supplies for an agricultural company he invested in. It says something about the racial and class politics of owing money that Republicans nevertheless feel safe attacking Abrams for her debt, most of which she accrued putting herself through school and helping to care for family members in crisis.
Meanwhile, Trump and others have bankruptcies and billion-dollar debts, but that is made out to not be an issue.
Being in debt is not necessarily shameful, and even if it is, whose indebtedness is more shameful?