"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich."
John Kenneth Galbraith
(Quoted here, with a Thomas Frank article...)
...one thing to add: Bernard Fall notes that France spent more than it received in Marshall Plan money after World War II trying to hold onto its Indochinese colonies.
Here's T.F.'s comment about the Democrat's role in promoting the rich.
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