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Because it\u2019s screwing them over.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a human tradition, not sacred tradition. \u00a0When it stops working, you fix or replace it. \u00a0And the more it screws more people over, the less likely those people are to listen to those at the top of the food chain telling them \u201cOoga booga. \u00a0Be afraid!\u201d when they keep noticing the 1% are only ones benefiting from Trickle Down economics.<\/p>\n

A reading of What\u2019s Wrong with the World<\/a><\/em> might be tonic. \u00a0And a memorization of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s prophetic description of Donald Trump\u2019s entire strategy for exploiting a population of increasingly screwed over whites: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he\u2019s better than the best colored man, he won\u2019t notice you\u2019re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he\u2019ll empty his pockets for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"