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  • pachrist@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldThey can't answer this
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    1 day ago

    Easy.

    There is a huge portion of the country, about 1/3, that knows they aren’t living the American dream, but they work hard and don’t understand why.

    Then, someone tells them something slightly true. That there’s not enough pie to go around (semi-true), and that the reason there’s not enough pie is all the immigrants and freeloaders who aren’t working and are taking handouts (false).

    What they aren’t told is there could be enough pie to go around, if the top 1% was willing to share. They aren’t. And they now control ~35% of wealth in the USA.

    And then the top 1% uses that extra capital to tell that 1/3 of people that their Hispanic neighbor is the problem.