Vesting people in a system suppresses their inclination to fight it

Evidence

Patricia said that her foreclosure was just a symptom of a deeper sickness in America: that the country had been sold to foreigners; that corporations, or what she called “corruptorations,” and “the banksters” had turned people into commodities; and that black people had become too comfortable with the status quo. “In the late ’70s, early ’80s, people started getting into ‘Oh, well, I want to become more a part of the system.’ Because to get you to buy into the system, the system was opening up certain things to make you feel more vested. And when you’re vested in something, you’re not going to fight against it.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 59

Categorization

• XREF: Patricia’s ‘vested means you won’t fight’ logic anticipates and parallels the book’s central claim about black electoral loyalty to the Democratic Party as co-optation.