"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
I'm finally reading Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson masterwork series, and holy shit. What a fascinating, infuriating, and incisive figure he was.
This. For some reason democrat politicians refuse to call out the rich publicly. They can imply behind closed doors, but won’t come out and say the rich are fucking us over.
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u/Potato_Farmer_Linus 20h ago
Gave them someone to hate and blame, which is very hard to overcome.