It works and it’s gonna keep working so long as people feel their lives are getting worse while some groups are getting special treatment. They’re obvious scape goats for the right. We need universalist economic policies that tangibly improve the majorities’ lives but neoliberalism has been delivering the opposite - means-testing and tinkering round the edges, all the while we’re more productive than ever. Have another welfare cut.
E: I’m not at all saying different social groups don’t deserve special treatment due to historical mistreatment and such. I’m saying that a system that only targets those groups for improvement while most get poorer is ready for disruption by using said groups as scape goats to explain why the majority is poorer.
It works and it’s gonna keep working so long as people feel their lives are getting worse while some groups are getting special treatment. They’re obvious scape goats for the right. We need universalist economic policies that tangibly improve the majorities’ lives but neoliberalism has been delivering the opposite - means-testing and tinkering round the edges, all the while we’re more productive than ever. Have another welfare cut.
E: I’m not at all saying different social groups don’t deserve special treatment due to historical mistreatment and such. I’m saying that a system that only targets those groups for improvement while most get poorer is ready for disruption by using said groups as scape goats to explain why the majority is poorer.