Sick and tired of the Snowden fanbase

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264. I agree with most of this, except economic class prejudice is the more relevant driver. It's race

that's the driver for a significant sub-cohort that tilts the balance here, but economic class is the over-arching prejudice and . . .

I honestly DO NOT UNDERSTAND why we don't talk about this point here at the DU more: ANY bigotry can work both ways here, because of the art of trollery. By this I mean that the meta-driver, economic class prejudices, can be ACTED out by BOTH those who have prejudices AGAINST the poor, by working to divide and conquer (which seems to be working pretty well, btw) and by those who have prejudices against the rich, by cultivating contrarian reactionary cliques.

The reason all of that meta-trollery works is because there's an awful lot of DU -ers who apparently care way less for concrete issues relevant to their actual lives than they do for other things like anger, frustration, and power. Not that those personal things should be regarded as 0, just more that it would be helpful if all of us were working to be more individually, honestly and fully self-aware about what we're doing.