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7: “The Culture War is a Smokescreen”

Let’s talk about the so-called “culture war.”

They want you fired up about books in libraries.
About who’s in what bathroom.
About M&M mascots and gas stoves and who said what on a college campus.
Every week, there’s a new “crisis.” And every week, it’s designed to do one thing:

Distract you from the real war—the class war.

Because while we’re yelling at each other over pronouns and drag shows, the ultra-wealthy are:

  • Shipping jobs overseas
  • Pocketing trillion-dollar tax breaks
  • Driving housing costs through the roof
  • Gutting your pensions and benefits
  • Buying up farmland, hospitals, and neighborhoods
  • And quietly rewriting the rules to keep you under their thumb

None of that is about “wokeism.” It’s about power.
And you know who wins when the country stays locked in endless culture wars?

The billionaire class.


Here’s what they don’t want you focused on:

  • The hedge funds that made $50 billion in profits while your wages stayed flat.
  • The CEO who makes 400 times what his average worker earns.
  • The fact that our military budget is over $800 billion, but somehow we “can’t afford” schools, roads, or healthcare.

They love it when we fight each other.
They need us blaming the poor, the immigrants, the teachers, the trans kids—anyone but them.


This isn’t a left vs. right issue.
This is top vs. bottom.

And every time we fall for the bait, every time we take the culture war headlines at face value, we hand them another win.

You don’t have to agree with everything someone else believes to stand shoulder to shoulder when the real fight comes.
You just need to know who’s getting rich off your silence—and who’s losing everything while you look the other way.


Let’s stop punching sideways.
Let’s start punching up.

Because if you’re not in the 1%, this fight is yours too.

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