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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lily" data-source="post: 942070" data-attributes="member: 1283">Sure the elites in every country on Earth largely look down on the masses.  You'll get no argument from me on that one.However, the concept of social capital is a solid one.  As long as they're not the bottom rung, some people will support the very people that make them one rung up from the bottom.And that is ignorance at its finest.Poor whites ought to forget about race and join in solidarity with their brethren...other poor people of all colors and finally vote together.  That would shake things up.  And when I mean poor, I really mean everyone from middle class down to the poorest of Americans. There really isn't much of a middle class anymore, there is really a paycheck to paycheck class.</blockquote>