The rich and powerful just keep feeding them the lie that one day they will hit the jackpot and Uncle Sam will grab it all -and in the meantime the upper class just keep getting fatter and richer on the masses' sweat and misery and ignorance.
I mean - the Proletariat are against health Care for all -against tax increases -against estate taxes -against eliminating Corporate welfare (including Mega Farmers) -anything that will enhance their piece of the pie which keeps on getting smaller.
I mean -these folks have about as much chance of striking cultural gold as they do of hitting the Lotto or becoming enlightened.
You Know the Romans had a saying for controlling the masses who were getting it up the backside 24/7:
"Bread and Spectacle" -they handed out free loaves and then it was into the Colliseum to watch the sickest shit they could think of - like Gladiators fighting bears -and Lions eating Christians (well that wasn't so bad in retrospect) And it worked! -They masses went home happy!
Now it's Bibles and Booze and TV and gambling and drugs - AND Misinformation 24/7 and non stop Political manipulation - and a cop every 100 yards
(aaand lest we forget the have nots used to also HAVE shopping -which is being replaced by extreme behavior of the kind we saw outside the White House -and it's gonna get worse -way worse without that shopping high))
You take all THOSE diversions away and the GODD Ole USA would look like a scene from the Road Warrior.
What a bunch of suckers!
