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"Local residents were dividing their scarce resources to operate two shrinking school systems, one private and one public — to the detriment of pretty much everyone there."
This is the fundamental dynamic and intent of decades and decades of dog-whistle politics.
In Heather McGhee's book, The Sum of Us, she delves into how wealthy regressive-right elites weaponize racism (and xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) against whites, blacks, immigrants,... to keep us from ...