To quote President Lyndon B. Johnson,  “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.”

One of America’s biggest problems is that the American people don’t know how their government or their economy works. For example, the fools think that the president has complete control over the government and the economy. Thus they blame whoever is in the White House for the actions of the other branches of government (the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court) and the actions of the Federal Reserve and the actions of the private market sector. For example, the inflation (rising prices) that American consumers have been faced with are primarily the result of businesses price-gouging consumers and then blaming it on inflation.