Coca-cola

"What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." - Andy Warhol

When looking at Warhol's paintings of Coke bottles, at first one thinks nothing of it because of the fact that we see the item everyday whether it be at home, a local convenient store, a vending machine or in someone's hands. However, back in Warhol's time depicting such an everyday object in an artwork was completely absurd and revolutionary. What do you think he was trying to say about the American people during his time through his paintings of the Coke bottle as well as the quote displayed above?