What I would really love to see is a journalistic/academic pursuit on the extent of elites' conscious undermining of the lower class. Are they holding weekly meetings on how to exploit the working class via actively shaping media coverage of current events in an effort to amplify divisions along racial, party, or religious (etc.) lines? No, probably not. But is there some established feedback loop regarding media that tends towards doing exactly that, and elites are at least somewhat aware of it? Probably so. I'd love to disentangle ever-more-partisan reporting from truth, and this article was a good step in the right direction. Thanks, 'bl00.
Well sheeeeeyot, boi. But I also wanna see content critical of democrats, although I suspect you'll contend that wealthy elites swing heavily GOP. Not saying I discount that, I imagine the datas support it. Also, I miss phloridaman
It doesn't work like that, though. The "Republicans are for rich people" "Democrats are for poor people" schism dates back to the demise of the Bourbon Democrats. Wilson shifted the Democrats left; Harding shifted the Republicans hard-right. By the time FDR came around the Right was so reactionary that army vets were marching on Washington and Wall Street was contemplating throwing him over for Hitler. This is one of the reasons goobster and I keep harping about the Southern Strategy - the South belonged solidly to the Democrats because they were poor and the Democrats didn't say shit about segregation. Then LBJ said shit about segregation and poor white trash that had no reason whatsoever to vote Republican did so with great enthusiasm so long as they had someone more downtrodden than themselves to make themselves feel better. LBJ Wealthy elites don't swing "heavily" GOP. Any wealthy elite that doesn't toe the GOP party line is a greater or lesser Soros and has been for a hundred years."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."
