That's devastatingly accurate, Poppa Gator. The fools you describe are helping to maintain the power of their own jailors and exploiters...yet imagining they are protecting themselves by so doing. It's the Archie Bunker mentality, the "great silent majority", still alive and well in lower & middle-class White America.

They can always be bribed by a conservative politician's promise to "cut taxes", somehow not realizing that those tax cuts and privatizations are causing the decay and collapse of the very social institutions they once depended upon and could once take for granted.

They are helping place the chains and manacles upon their own wrists and ankles every time they vote in another "conservative" measure...all the time imagining that they are still better off than the Blacks, the Latinos, and whoever else is a notch or two lower on the vicious pecking order than themselves.

"the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool..." - Bob Dylan (Only a Pawn in Their Game)