Which is completely insane. We don’t owe the ultra-rich anything. They are not job-creators, they are hoarders and leeches on the system.

Conservative folks say that rich people deserve it, having come up with a product or service that people want. Perhaps some do. But I would argue that almost no-one gets to be that rich legally and ethically—it always comes on the back of either exploiting the system, or exploiting workers/people. There are virtually no ethical billionaires.

The brilliance fo the GOP is that they’ve figured out how to exploit their own constituants (starting with the Southern Strategy) to convince them through wedge issues, religion, and racism, to vote against their own interests.

”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.” - LBJ

In some ways, I respect the modern GOP for pulling this grift and taking it as far as they have. It’s possibly the most ‘American’ move imaginable, and they likely would have gotten away with it, if not for Trump taking it way too far, way too fast, and exposing the charade for what it is.

But of course by keeping people uneducated, unable to think critically, just chanting the conservative mantras over and over, keeps their reliable base voting against policies that would actually help them in their real lives.

Eating their own shit to own the libs. You hate to see it.