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In reply to the discussion: This is some bitter truth.. [View all]brush
(57,659 posts)What the rural poor don't get is what they think is their big asset, their white skin, is actually a disadvantage in a way because it allows the divide-and-conquer crowd to use that to pit them against the urban poor and they fall for it time after time after time after time.
It's worked historically for the "divide-and-conquer, now trickle-down-crowd" what a crock of devious shit trickle down is) since the days of enslavement when they saw indentured servant whites and black enslaved people starting to intermingle and even marry. They couldn't have that so they started putting poor whites in overseer positions to squash that, which led eventually to police departments and their history antipathy towards blacks.
And we may just as well bring in all the unemployed and under employed white working class, Latinos and other Pocs. We've all got the same problem, no decent jobs and safety nets about to be cut and no solidarity with people with the same problem.