I'm sure this isn't an original thought, but it's the thought I woke up with.

[ananda]

20. Always bears repeating. In one word: classism.

And those rich and powerful people really have mastered
the divide and conquer methods to make oppressed people
want to either be oppressors, side with oppressors, or
both.

It sure worked on my whole Texas family. I would say it
worked for many years on everyone in the confederate
states and still does, and now it's even spread to the
working classes who used to be reliably blue.

And then they got ahold of the media and figured out
how to steal the vote.

And ever since we caved in 2000, it's led us to this sorry mess.