What's weird is how utterly willing the minions choose to be, as if by being shit licking toadies they'll somehow catch a ride on the Elon train when in reality they couldn't catch a job scrubbing toilets at TwitterX HQ late at night.
This is a mentality that afflicts a certain demographic going back generations, centuries. They sided with rich plantation owners against other fellow poor folks, separating themselves along racial lines. As if sharing skin tone with the aristocratic types automatically would confer an advantage, when in reality they're still dirt farmers or less after all this time.
The richer folks exploited this, better to have them fighting for them than against them along with other poor folks. Not just divide and conquer, but divide and conscript.
It's a big reason why autocratic types appeal to them, as they always have. They've always seen democracy as an impediment, a hobby for those snooty northern cityfolk who can afford to indulge themselves in such fancy fantasies.
They seek a shortcut into what they can never have, what they can never be. They think by putting others of their own class down it would somehow elevate their status. Their own personal history hasn't taught them a thing.