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One thing that the entire working class and most of what's left of the middle class have in common is a steadily declining standard of living. This naturally causes resentment when they see badly needed resources being expended on wars, while being told the poor government can't possibly help THEM.

From there it's only one easy step to becoming staunchly anti-imperialist and, by material necessity and sheer logic, anti-oligarchy. Refusing to deal with potential anti-imperialists because of the identity politics issues the oligarchy feeds only serves the oligarchy.

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