White privilege 101: Here’s the basic lesson Paul Ryan, Tal Fortgang and Donald Sterling need

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The fortunes of white working-class men have plummeted since the early ’70s — not because women and minorities have stolen their cheese, but because they’re snookered into thinking like that, making themselves easy marks for far more sophisticated actors to take advantage of. And what’s long been true for working-class white men will increasingly become true of white men with college degrees as well. One of Thomas Piketty’s central points is that any sort of labor, however skilled it may be, is going to lose out to inherited capital in the long run, if the basic structures of today’s capitalist economy aren’t changed.

People also have a need to place blame. The Right has succeeded in this area. By shifting the cause onto the other, deflecting from real cause. It is real easy to do when people don't like to think, they like being told why. I call them Faux newz viewers. There is some laziness involved. Some is that people are working hard at their jobs and just getting by. They are too tired when they come home, so they let the media think for them.

After a few years of this they have become entrenched and addicted to the cycle.