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Brian Allen @allenanalysis When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor. The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.
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timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 08:42:07 JST timberwraith

The missing word in that first sentence is "white." The white working class is who is described by the post. White people are normalized/centered as the *entire* demographic and the only part worth talking about. Which is actually, quite racist.
It's no mystery that vast swaths of white people of all demographics identify with white oligarchs and defend them because whiteness, by its very nature, aligns itself with hierarchy and power. Whiteness IS a system of hierarchy and power.

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