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It seems so strange: Inequality makes people vote for billionaire.

• jdpedrie 10y ago
  It's not that strange really. I don't think most poor people hold the wealth of the rich against them so much as they resent the feeling that the rich think they're superior, or that the rich dismiss and ignore everyone, and rig the system. A rich guy who says the things that the poor already believe (rightly or not), things nobody else will say, has a leg up on gaining their support. People want a champion, whether or not that champion looks like them. (cf. Gracchus [1]) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus