The worst part is that many of those who fall for this lie are some of the worst off, financially speaking. And they’re often surrounded by people in similar positions.
They know they’re fucked. They’ll watch neighbors lose homes, avoid doctors, go through times when they can’t pay bills, etc.
Then they’ll turn around and vote against their own interests. Against the interests of those they’re close to.
Fucking wild that the propoganda machines are that powerful.
I believe it works so well on those who are in a bad financial situation because whatever little money they make, they want to/need to keep as much of it as possible.
That makes them an easy target of "we're going to lower taxes." While of course only doing it for the wealthy and screaming the left wants to give your hard earned money to lazy people, immigrants, sex changes or whatever marginalized group is the flavour of the year to attack.
None of this applies to me but the avoiding doctors part. Am I up in here with a bunch of multi millionaires or something?
Probably a very American thing, the richest country in the world that, for some mad reason, never decided to offer single payer subsidised healthcare for all its residents.
Our 1% make us the richest nation in the world. Everyone under them are plebs.
and and and the GAAAAAAAAYYYYYYS
Am I the only one here who's bothered by what really counts?
Why is left standing right and right standing left?
The universe makes no sense anymore!
Their right or your right ?
Right
Two people can't have the same right
BUT...three lefts make a right!
Honestly, they don’t even try to hide it. They flaunt their wealth and in between gorging themselves on the wealth of the people, they’ll spout out some inane BS to incense the masses.
It's the government that has all ~~the rest~~ of ~~my~~ your money. We have to cut taxes so ~~I~~ you can get more of it ~~from you~~!
I want to see a thought provoking comment but I don't have one to offer myself. What to do?
I know your comment isn’t truly asking, but I want to answer just because there was a time when I used to put a lot of pressure on myself to generate something truly insightful, creative, deep, etc. before voicing my thoughts or opinion. Then I realized you don’t need to do that. I still have a tendency to - and I’m not saying everyone should just voice their loud-ass bullshit without thinking.
You likely have an insight that someone would find interesting, even if it seems entirely obvious to you. Great conversation can sometimes be a very simple volley back and forth of extremely basic observations.
Run with whatever logic this makes your mind go to... even if it’s something like “crazy that people vote to give rich people more money” or another basic interpretation of this. It gets the ball rolling for other people, let’s them put a new spin on it, and may be that little spark needed to create something more impactful.
I needed this today. Thanks.
if you think about it the poor probably have all the money that makes sense.
East Coast Its! This is my favorite webcomic, hands down.
Is there a website? I'm just finding Instagram and I pretty much hate that.
The closest I found to a non social media site is the patreon https://www.patreon.com/eastcoastitnotes Not much for free though
He usually posts pretty regularly to reddit as well =/ I just follow on Instagram.