US politics is rich people talking to rich people

‎"Globally speaking, I am rich. Chances are everyone reading this is rich. US politics is rich people talking to rich people. Remember that."

Statements like this kind of piss me off. I say kind of because it is an obviously true statement. It pisses me off because the implication is that, because we don't live in a favela scraping a subsistence living out of a garbage dump, we should shut the hell up about how RELATIVELY poorly most people are fairing under corporate fascism in America.

Yes, we do infinitely better here than in the 3rd world. Only a douchebag or a Water Carrier would say otherwise. Howfuckingever, this is not a reason to placidly accept that 1% of our population controls the vast majority of our national wealth and just about all of our government. This is especially true because one of the Oligarchy's favorite dance routines is the perpetual war paradigm that threatens not only the combatants but the ability of our planet to sustain human life in dignified form. What level of violence would we be delivering to the door of the truly poor of the world if we shut up about this and just wrote in our gratefulness journals instead?

I wonder if people who say things like this are just trying to be mindful of their unearned blessings or if they are elitist assholes who just want the serfs to pipe the fuck down and gratefully accept whatever noblesse oblige gets tossed their way.