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Who speaks for the poor? Leonard Pitts does here, pointing out that the reception to South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer's obscene remarks might have been different had Bauer referred specifically to blacks or Jews or women. Pitts writes about the long-time, successful effort of the economically privileged to blunt the political power of the poor by pitting them against one another, usually on the basis of race:

It takes some helluva psychology to get two men stuck in the same leaking boat to fight one another. You'd think their priority would be to come together, if only long enough to bail water. But the moneyed interests in this country have somehow been able to con the poor into doing just that, fighting tooth and nail when they ought to be standing shoulder to shoulder.

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