I know people who voted for Trump because they thought these tax cuts would apply to them. With them not being super rich, it’s never going to happen. Can’t convince them otherwise though.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a great way of exposing that attitude through the Ferengi. Quark, the proprietor of Quark’s Bar, mistreats his employees again, and they are pissed. Station chief Miles O’brian tries to rally them to form a union of bar workers and to strike, and one of them, Rom, actually says:
Ferengi workers don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.
The lie of the “american dream” - don’t rally against rich people, for you might once become one of them[1].
your chance might be less than one in a trillion ↩︎
It’s because they all think that they’re temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, with rivers of money about to pour in, any time now… any day… so of course they vote for anything that will benefit them based on their expectation of being part of that group
I know people who voted for Trump because they thought these tax cuts would apply to them. With them not being super rich, it’s never going to happen. Can’t convince them otherwise though.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a great way of exposing that attitude through the Ferengi. Quark, the proprietor of Quark’s Bar, mistreats his employees again, and they are pissed. Station chief Miles O’brian tries to rally them to form a union of bar workers and to strike, and one of them, Rom, actually says:
The lie of the “american dream” - don’t rally against rich people, for you might once become one of them[1].
your chance might be less than one in a trillion ↩︎
It’s because they all think that they’re temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, with rivers of money about to pour in, any time now… any day… so of course they vote for anything that will benefit them based on their expectation of being part of that group
Last time they gave a few $1000 that expired after a few years. They’ll probably do something similar again.