Aqua,

There is much power and money in getting the American People to see you as a victim.

Even if you individually are not a victim, if you can assert membership in a class or group of people who can be identified as victims, then you are entitled to a piece of whatever compensation is "justly" due to the group to make them whole again.

I am, alas, not inventing this. It is contemporary legal theory.

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Eudaimonia