Americans with wealth and power don't generally care about the middle and lower classes. Even worse, they are doing real damage to the people they don't care about.
But why? Either these well-positioned people are 100 percent out of touch with the realities of middle-class life in our country, or they're contemptuous of those they consider inferior, or they believe so strongly in individual 'freedom' that even the word 'social' is repugnant to them.
The latter.
See Thatcher's "There no such thing as 'society'" bullshit.
Once all consequences and implications of that mindset are made evident, all the 1%'s deeds and actions fall into place.
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It's not necessarily either/ or. They can be contemptuous of inferiors, hate social programs, and be ignorant of suffering all at once.
And in fact probably are.