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I can't put my finger on this, but I bet there's some psychology behind rooting for the "underdog" and being repulsed by the "powerful"
There's a fair bit of writing on this topic, for example this article
~~There is also this one that more explicitly links this mindset to Christian culture~~
Those are the same essay just published in two different places. It is a banger though
I'm very silly sometimes. I read the first version but not the second. Thank you for the correction.
No worries. It doesn't help that the redsails version changed the title
I have to imagine it has to do with identification. Unless you're at the top of the social order, you're going to identify with the "underdog" to some extent, but few will identify with the powerful. Even at the higher echelons, there's still plenty of people with more power, which can lead one to the false assumption of one's own downtrodden status: hence the difficulty of many white-presenting people to recognize their own privilege, even when it becomes increasingly obvious when bolstered by wealth.