“Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap”
The &quot;standard model&quot; for race for progressives flies in the face of how political science works.<p>The founding fathers of the US were afraid that the majority would deprive the wealthy minority of its property but<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mancur_Olson" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mancur_Olson</a><p>found there wasn&#x27;t much danger than that in a democracy because it&#x27;s easy for a small privileged minority to organized to maintain and enlarge its privileges because it is so profitable to do so that it can do so even if only some members of the group organize.  A large group finds it almost impossible,  however,  to organize to protect its own interests because it is inevitably less profitable from the viewpoint of the individual consumer.<p>In apartheid-era South Africa,  for instance,  we could say 10% of the population was white and 90% was black and income was initially distributed fairly,  whites could double their standard of living by taking just 12% of the income from black people.<p>In the US it is more like 90% white and 10% black,  and if whites took everything from blacks they could only increase their standard of living by 10%.<p>In apartheid South Africa racism enriches white greatly.  In the US, not so much.  White privilege means something very different in South Africa than the US.  In South Africa racism is something white people did to benefit themselves.<p>In the US the &#x27;benefits&#x27; of racism for whites are primarily psychological.  LBJ said “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,  If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”<p>That is &quot;white privilege&quot; is firstly a scam at white people&#x27;s expense that pushes them into voting for the Republican party indiscriminately and thus make politics noncompetitive.  Secondly &quot;white privilege&quot; is a scam that makes politics noncompetitive within the left.