Maybe y'all can get them to be mad at the rich instead of brown people, I dunno. But I don't think they're gonna go in for that.
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I don't think they're gonna go in for anything less than "I am an important member of the biggest, baddest country on the planet."
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"I build the pyramids and I might not get rich off it but I make a living and raise my family and by the way I build pyramids."
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Like do you even know the myths of the working man in the United States? Do you know about Paul Bunyan and John Henry?
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It's all "I built the pyramids" type shit. I might've died doing it, but I built the pyramids and built them taller and better than anyone.
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And you can try telling them "well, you built the pyramids because you're a slave." And they'll say, "I built the pyramids!"
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"I power the whole country!" "I make the steel in the Empire State Building!" "I built that car you're driving!" That's what people want.
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And in the absence of that they're only going to get more bitter at people telling them what they built was murder and ashes.
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And then you're going to turn on us and tell us to shut up and let them keep their fantasy. Prove to me that's not where this ends.
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The real conflict here is between people for whom America is their greatest achievement and people for whom America is their daily murderer.
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And while I will fight for it because it is right, single-payer healthcare is not going to resolve that conflict.
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