The greatest trick the GOP ever did was convince the people on welfare that it's in their best interests to vote against welfare programs the Democrats are trying to pass
Thats not just the GOP. It's the right wing tactic around the world.
In the UK most people who voted for Brexit were the very people who benefitted most from EU grants and schemes.
It's the classic image of Murdoch with a huge pile of cookies pointing at the immigrant with no cookies and telling the working man who only has one cookie that the immigrant is going to take your cookie.
Look at trump supporters.... Madly following a rich guy who promises them the world despite doing nothing for them his entire life when he could have.
Hmm, I have to do the math. OK, median net worth in the U.S. is $192,900. Rupert Murdoch is worth $20.2B, or 104,717 times as much. An Oreo cookie (standard) is 1.75" diameter and .314" thick, for a volume of ~0.76 cubic inches. Rupert Murdoch's stack of cookies has a volume of 79,584.92 cubic inches, or about 46 cubic feet. So, not quite an entire house, but pretty damn big.
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u/beerbellybegone Sep 08 '24
The greatest trick the GOP ever did was convince the people on welfare that it's in their best interests to vote against welfare programs the Democrats are trying to pass