Why $30K Earners Defend $174K Politicians 🏛️

A House Speaker recently asked the country to have sympathy for politicians who can’t survive on $174,000 a year while trading stocks on inside information.
Why do so many people making far less than $174,000 defend this system? It’s psychology and there’s decades of peer-reviewed research explaining exactly how this con works.

In this video, I walk through six frameworks from social psychology, political psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural commentary that together explain the most counterintuitive pattern in American politics: why the people most harmed by a rigged system are often its loudest defenders.