Charles Brown

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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― John Steinbeck

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  Charles Brown The enormous popularity of casino gambling in the US working class demonstrates the mentality that votes Republican. The House almost always wins, and always wins in the long run. The average gambler ignores this fact, and pursues an impossible dream of striking it rich.

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  Charles Detroit Change Bell Great quote

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  Chris Scruton Steinbeck had a lot of grit.
  'In Dubious Battle' is a good one.

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  Donald Antal same with the lottery ripoff...

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  MA Kenealy Yeah and TV just rubs it in...

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  Randy Priest In Japan, they call "The Grapes of Wrath" - "The Angry Raisins"...

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  Charles Brown American proletariat has the opposite of Sour Grapes about the riches they cannot have. They _lack_ envy or the rich, as if they were following Nietzsche : 
  Making a false pretense to form a rationalization, i.e., not to care for something one wants, but does not or cannot have (expression originated in "The Fox and the Grapes," one of Aesop's Fables)

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