"It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields.
You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/14/resentment/index.html