Similar to plantation owners convincing poor white Southerners that the North was threatening their "way of life", billionaires used media to manufacture consen

Similar to plantation owners convincing poor white Southerners that the North was threatening their "way of life", billionaires used media to manufacture consent of a large subset of Americans that [insert scapegoats] are "the problem". Separating church and state and wealth and media are essential to having a functioning democratic flavor of government.