I mean, when it comes to things such as religion, climate change, same sex marriage and any number of social issues the GOP are just away with the fairies. Don't get me wrong I know that there are Tories who are in lockstep with them but it is nowhere near as common. I disagree with the layer of professionalism they have just been very effective at making people vote against their own self interest wby telling flat out lies.
America has been the king of doing that for generations by pitting the "lower classes" against themselves like some sort of never-ending battle royale. Where until you actually die you are permanently "resurrected" to keep fighting no matter who is governing the country. Don't mind living a life of crippling debt due to unfortunate genetics leading to terminal conditions, stick around until the day you do die, please.
I mean, that's what the American dream is. Even when you think you've attained wealth, and cemented yourself as the height of... middle-class, you're still in the battle royale mode to be incredibly aggressive towards anyone "lower" than you also trying to climb the ranks. People just coming to steal your wealth, tax you
unfairly and make America a communist hellhole where bread is unaffordable. Or something. I'd be interested to know like if that dumb cunt on BBCQT who thought to earn £80,000+ a year put him in the top 50% (hint, £80,000 is top 5% in UK), Americans also massively get it wrong what the average income actually is?
Britains classism copies that to an extent, but like with many things in America,
bigger is better, meaning the issue is always blown out to the maximum proportion possible.
There's no better example of it than the African-American communities, or however one identifies, who perpetually exist in some never-ending cycle of "poverty sports". But don't mind the Conservatives who occasionally manage to find some rich black person to wheel out to shout hysterically about bootstraps and the American dream enabling them to be rich and go on book tours, have a chat show or whatever. Cause like above, you know, that top 1%, let alone top 5%, are truly representative ya'all! Just work harder and you can all attain this!
The wealth disparity in America is beyond inhumane and unfortunately the people, largely, have bought into the poverty sports/battle royale of not trying to lift everyone up, but trying to find a way to always laugh at or make themselves feel better someone somewhere in America is worse off. The poors are just trying to steal your money by taxes! Publicly funded healthcare or education is theft! How will you afford your 3rd car of the year if some lazy black person tries to get healthcare off of your income! (cause thats how taxation actually works...).
Quite frankly the shower of shit the Democrats have been fielding for a while now have offered nothing to even start to truly go after the powers and money sources that perpetuate many of these issues. But ain't I glad to hear it seems like big Joe Biden is truly going to change things in America.
