I agree with your opinion. I just couldn't tell what the antecedent to 'they' was. Yeah, the financial paper trail is probably the most compelling. The most re

I agree with your opinion. I just couldn't tell what the antecedent to 'they' was. Yeah, the financial paper trail is probably the most compelling. The most reactionary media figures tend to be directly financed by wealthy interests who are happy to sow division by inflaming superficial threats to people's identities. The most popular explanation for this type of behavior is simply that people are bigoted and otherwise bad. I think the more meaningful and rational explanation is that the wealthy owners of society are employing a divide-and-conquer strategy. In this case, superficial differences are emphasized in order to reduce the ability of the people to develop class-consciousness and organize based on their common interests.