Believing it and benefiting from it are two different things. Eg. My state requires voter approval for tax increases. We had a vote to increase taxes on healthcare providers to fund Medicaid expansion. Most of us docs voted FOR it. Counties w/highest % on Medicaid are most red & voted AGAINST it! 🤦🏽♀️
I hate that cartoon. Why are we supposed to sympathize with the worker? What could he possibly be thinking?
I don’t think we’re supposed to sympathize with the worker as much as understand the lies and fear (of “the other:” Blacks, Muslims, immigrants, trans folks) that GOP/wealthy use to appeal to their worst impulses and brainwash them into fearing & hating those “others” trying to take their 1 cookie.
But the other guy has a pile of cookies right there! It's a bad metaphor. But the meme you shared just now with the child is wonderful
Right! Just like you and I know that immigrants & trans people are NOT the reason the working class MAGAts feel so victimized, but that’s what they’re told by Trump-GOP. And if that cartoon were drawn to scale, the rich guy would have a Tower of Cookies reaching up to the Space Station!