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by infamouscow 1028 days ago
To add, the establishment LOVES when team red and blue fight over social issues.

Not that social issues aren't important, but the outcome of social issues never negatively affect the crony capitalists in power. Social issues are the opium of activists and pundits to distract the very same activists and pundits from decades of policy that only benefit the elite.

Raytheon LOVES when people fight about abortion rights.

Citibank LOVES when people fight about police reform.

None of these social issues actually matter if the entire middle class is ground to dust and scattered into the wind.