The “middle class” doesn’t think they are poor so this message will fall flat on them. In fact they might support it, because then they get to kick down on someone.
Even the working-poor conservatives who have to put in 60+ hours a week for minimum wage just to pay for their shitty single-wide have been brainwashed to believe that they’re “prosperous” simply for being white americans, and that being one medical bill away from literal homelessness is actually “patriotism.”
So yeah, the only way we break this infernal spell cast by ancient liches and necromancers is to point at the liches and necromancers hiding behind the curtain. This is populism, this is class consciousness and this is unifying against the actual enemies of our country.
If we’re going by the historical use of the term, yes.
At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats. You were born into your class and that was that. But early industrialization lead to a funny thing; people who were born peasants, yet through owning things like mines or factories, had amassed enough wealth to rival (and sometimes surpass) the aristocracy. Aristocrats derisively refereed to these wealthy peasants as “The Middle Class”.
If you were to show an aristocrat our present world, they’d tell you we’re ruled by their middle class.
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.
Should be “fuck the 99%”.
The “middle class” doesn’t think they are poor so this message will fall flat on them. In fact they might support it, because then they get to kick down on someone.
Even the working-poor conservatives who have to put in 60+ hours a week for minimum wage just to pay for their shitty single-wide have been brainwashed to believe that they’re “prosperous” simply for being white americans, and that being one medical bill away from literal homelessness is actually “patriotism.”
So yeah, the only way we break this infernal spell cast by ancient liches and necromancers is to point at the liches and necromancers hiding behind the curtain. This is populism, this is class consciousness and this is unifying against the actual enemies of our country.
TIL the middle class is part of the 1%
If we’re going by the historical use of the term, yes.
At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats. You were born into your class and that was that. But early industrialization lead to a funny thing; people who were born peasants, yet through owning things like mines or factories, had amassed enough wealth to rival (and sometimes surpass) the aristocracy. Aristocrats derisively refereed to these wealthy peasants as “The Middle Class”.
If you were to show an aristocrat our present world, they’d tell you we’re ruled by their middle class.
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.
They aren’t, that’s the whole point.
Sorry, I may have misunderstood that. What you meant was they ARE part of the 99% but they don’t consider themselves that way, correct?