Reply to post: Re: make sure the poor stay poor, the wealthy get richer

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Re: make sure the poor stay poor, the wealthy get richer

I think you've hit on the real issue here; identity politics is a distraction from a lot of the real, tangible socio-economic issues. It's easier for the elites to agree the problem is colour discrimination; something about themselves they can't change, rather than their wealth and power, which they could share.

Trump found a base in folks who saw 'white privilege' as having little applicability to them due to location and poverty/economic insecurity; while ignoring the suppression, gerrymandering and electoral college structures that give them outsized influence politically. Decades of hollowing out of public education yielded a ripe polity credulous enough for the lies and simplistic answers; Decades of politicisation of minor moral issues appealed to their small-minded faith. It's the western equivalent of the Taliban support drives.

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