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[LoZoccolo]

...as far as addressing people that support elitist policies when they're really not part of the elite, there's a lot on that site about how the Republican policies are there to drive down the cost of labor in general by making even working people more desperate for work, increasing unemployment, etcetera.

It's a hard thing for people to get over, I guess you'd have to point out how little power they really have when things come up - when they don't get even a cost-of-living raise this year, when they're afraid of getting laid off because they're making cuts, and the like. People like to think they're a lot "better off" than they are I guess, because they equate this with being accomplished, which may or may not be correlated. There's a statistic in Al Franken's new book about how 19% of people think they are in the top 1% of income earners!