Don’t be so cocky
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I think that @goodfeather16 is probably entirely wrong in assuming that poor people actually believe that “billionaires care for them and can solve their problem”. I’d guess only a small percentage of poor people believe that, but perhaps even none. Phrased like “care for them” there seems to be no polling data, so it’s probably an unknown and as such a weird thing to write.
Also, while @goodfeather16 writes that this (probably entirely untrue) statement would be “amazing”, there’s the implication that therefore poor people must be stupid (many of the other commenters clearly draw this conclusion). It could be sloppy writing by @goodfeather16 if that implication was unintended, but this implication does certainly not follow logically. It might be “amazing” in the sense that it would require an explanation, but general stupidity of all poor people would certainly be the wrong explanation.
There is polling data for the belief that “billionaires are good for the economy” and “billionaires help accelerate innovation”. Around 60% of Americans believe that. (There’s a poll called Americans-and-Billionaires-Survey-August-2024.) Looking at other data, it seems to me that most of those 60% are actually not poor people. So, even if @goodfeather16 had written something like “poor people think that billionaires are good for the economy”, that would still have been wrong.
An entirely different question would be: why do many poor people support Trump? But this has been well studied, the reasons fall mostly in the domain of social psychology and the unattractiveness of the other side as a result of polarization. There’s no mystery there, nothing to be “amazed” about.
That leaves questions like: how do we combat polarization? How do we prevent extremists on the right and the left from taking over the conversation? Etc. Those are hard questions that fall outside of the scope of this reaction.