re: #187 Belafon

Well, if he’d stop thinking he’s different than the lower class, we could fix it. Help Democrats raise taxes on the rich to pay for college. I’m all for the effective rates of the 50s.

I agree so much with your point. One of the wedges that the Koch cabal has driven is ensuring that white people think they are different. The same thing that happened in the cities is now happening in the rural areas. Good jobs go away, talented people move away, housing stock deteriorates, school funding declines, hopelessness takes root leading to alcohol abuse, drug abuse and crime. But white people can’t see that “they are coming for me now”. They think it was because of the failing of poor people. In fact, they would rather accuse their neighbors of failing than to question the system. Not talking about the person in the original post, but in general. As long as they can blame people for their own misery, they don’t have to face the hard truth of who is really screwing them.