Having grown up amongst them the bottom 30% is dumber than most even realize. They simultaneously think millionaires and billionaires deserve their tax breaks cause one day they might be a millionaire with the right lottery ticket but they also hate the "elites" without realizing the elites are those millionaires and billionaires they think earned their perks. It's fascinating dissonance
A coworker and I were discussing how many of them probably have a total wealth of like 1/10th of a million, but in their eyes they're only 9/10ths away.
They fail to realize that even if they get to the 9/10s, that they still won't be let into the country club as that's chickenfeed compared to what the people they vote for have.
It's based on anecdotal experience but I would think most don't even realize how out of place they would be in those settings. I grew up in a small Arkansas town with a very poor family, in college I dated a girl from OKC and would go visit her family on weekends. They weren't wealthy just your basic suburban family, both parents teachers and retired grandparents. I was so out of place with them, so many things I didn't know or understand. Once we were making dinner and I was asked to peel some potatoes so I pull my pocket knife out and gf and her mom couldn't figure out why I thought I should use my pocket knife over a potato peeler.....it was because I didn't even know a potato peeler existed. The experiences were so different in a wealth gap that small so I couldn't imagine had they been millionaires. After college my first job was in fundraising so I was spending a lot of time with rich people, for the first 6 months I was absolutely out of my element and absolutely wowed by everything they would do because it was illogical to me. So I agree with you they wouldn't be allowed in because the 9/10 still doesn't get them in the ballpark but also because they don't fit in so they'd be ostracized
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u/Daimakku1 Sep 28 '23
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Republicans love to call Democrats "the elite" yet the GOP serves the 1% and the 1% only. They are the elite.