I'll take honest but smaltzy over self satisfied any day!

I was thinking about this maybe aweek ago. No one seems to remember what happened to Gatsby, or that Daisy and Tom are described as "careless people who smash things then hide behind their money" (inexact quote). All that sticks in many minds are the wild parties, and that green light at the end.

And there's also the insidious ploy of shaming White ppl into silence for failing like those lazy Blacks who abuse the welfare programs. That's how you destroy class solidarity -- make White ppl ashamed to advocate for their own interests bc they think they're the only White ppl using SNAP.