President Lyndon Johnson was once quoted to have said, “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.”
Racism is an interesting thing. It is not built on logic, but rather a belief; it is a religion, with millions of devoted followers, imagining themselves as gods. Poor racists not only believe that marginalized groups are not intelligent enough to recognize when they are being oppressed, but that they themselves are impervious to the dangers of oppression, even if they see themselves in similar economic situations as their Black or brown counterparts. So, imagine their surprise when rich people do what rich people do and discriminate against the poor, without discrimination.
Trump-supporting TikTokers have been sharing their experiences and buyers’ remorse about voting for Trump, who said he would bring back jobs but has been on a firing spree.
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The thing is, Republicans have not lied—well, completely—about what they were going to do.
They gave a 900-ish page playbook about the bleak outlook of this country and poor white people somehow thought they were exempt from danger, as if they were going to be magically plucked from their hellish earthly existence like an ensemble protagonist in a Kirk Cameron movie. The same demographic that will eagerly and erroneously tell you about Irish enslavement, just to silence Black voices, somehow thinks they’re too good to endure the indentured servitude, they so nostalgically cling to for their self-righteousness. Even with the knowledge that the Irish, a group which never experienced chattel slavery in the United States, was still able to integrate completely into whiteness—something Black people cannot do.
Their desire is to ascend to the highest level of whiteness—rich whiteness—thusly asserting their superiority even more.
Hitler took over Germany because he convinced a bunch of poor people that Jews were why they were poor, and not the reparations they had to pay for losing World War I, which caused hyperinflation. People were so poor after World War I, that they burned Deutschemarks for heat because the money was worth so little.
Antisemitism thrived.
In his 2024 run for dictator president, Trump used these same scare tactics against immigrants, going as far as to lie about Haitian immigrants eating family pets, or blaming Hispanic immigrants for crime and drug use. He even convinced his supporters that people making less money than them had taken their jobs. He fulfilled a need; he answered one of life’s greatest mysteries for many of his supporters. “Why is my life so bad?” Because of their ardent belief in their superiority, it could not have been labeled a problem with self, that’s not likely and it definitely can’t be the nice rich people who they know they’ll someday be. It must be the people with less than me who are extorting me and keeping me from advancing in life.
They need racism and the oppression of others to feel self-important.
No matter how bad life is, they always have the assumed racial superiority, backed up by an ass backwards society. No matter how bad life gets, there is always the misery endured by minorities to lift the spirits of a broke bigot. In that bigot’s mind, they are only one lottery ticket away from no longer having to endure the indignity of the one thing they share with non-whites: poverty.
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They agree with the savagery of Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they see themselves in people who wouldn’t stop to p*ss on them if they were on fire. They lust for the opportunity to oppress others on a massive scale. They identify with their sociopathy.
To them racism is divine; it allows them to see themselves as gods no matter how hellish their existence.
