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6. I agree. My post was more hypothetically directed at the poor...
Wed Aug 8, 2018, 02:45 PM
Aug 2018

Or at least those who are struggling but still vote to prop up the oligarchs out of a misguided idea that they are their friends. They have been fooled into thinking this because it serves the new ruling class for them to think so. They dream of one day being the next millionaire themselves. After all if the American Dream is to be believed (it died a long time ago) nothing but yourself should be holding you back from being the next millionaire. But these people look around and see that this is not the case, they are stuck at the bottom in dead end job, lacking skills, education, opportunity. They work damn hard too. They climb the economic ladder only to find everything above the first 3 rungs have been sawed off. And they have been fooled into believing that Obama and the "socialists" are the ones that sawed them off. When the truth is the ladder was always contested that way so that those at the top didn't have to share as much.

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