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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The middle-class makes up the US's "breadbasket" of political capital, they are the ones with homes, money and credit cards and they are the fatty, crispy pork-back that every oligarch and political leader eye with hunger. They are largely liberal and largely out-of-touch and vote with completely tuned-out ambivalence on most issues. (Read up on exit polling for the 2024 election, it's WILD how people made their decisions and how little they actually understood about the election and candidates.)

The user above is saying that the meme should be pointing out that this 99% (approximately) are the ones who should be alerted to the fact that they're being fleeced, not just people below the poverty line. People view "the poor" as dirty hobos, not people who work 7 days a week.

This ENTIRE political WWE theater we're subjected to with right-versus-left has been fabricated to keep people distracted and occupied so they don't notice the liches and necromancers pulling society's strings in the background. We need to do better to turn this into a class-war and not a fight over trying to yell at conservatives for being ideologically inconsistent. Some fights you can win, some you can't.