Divide and distract: how billionaires stay winning

The whole “us vs them” mindset in American politics is honestly just a scam, and the people at the top know exactly how to use it to keep us distracted. Conservatives love to hammer home the “we and them” angle, like if we could just get rid of all the so-called “others,” everything would magically be fixed – but there’s always going to be a new scapegoat. This is textbook fascism: it always needs someone to point the finger at. The big irony is that the richest conservatives secretly want all that anti-immigrant outrage to rile up their voters, but they’d never actually kick out cheap immigrant labor – they need someone to clean their houses and pick their crops for almost nothing. It’s all a sucker’s game, and regular folks get played for fools while the billionaires laugh all the way to the bank. And it’s not just the right, either. Liberals love to talk about “unity” and being on the right side of history, but let’s get real: rich progressives rarely care about poor progressives except when there’s a photo op or a speech to give. The “US” talk looks good on a campaign poster, but it doesn’t fill anyone’s fridge. Meanwhile, all this division is exactly what the ultra-wealthy want. The more we’re busy fighting over who belongs and who doesn’t, the more the billionaire class, CEOs, and hedge fund managers quietly stack up wealth that would take the average worker thousands of lifetimes to earn. And yeah, wealth inequality is the root of a ton of our country’s problems – but it’s not the whole story. Fixing the massive money gap wouldn’t magically erase racism, antisemitism, or all the other forms of hate that get people killed and terrorized. There are people threatening synagogues and lynching Black Americans in 2024, and that’s not just about money – that’s real, deep-seated prejudice. Bottom line: the “us vs them” hype is the oldest trick in the book for keeping regular people fighting each other while the rich rob us blind. Don’t get played. Wake up and see who’s really pulling the strings.