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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy do so many Americans not have a problem with this?
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Why is it acceptable in this country for wealth to continue being concentrated in the hands of a shrinking minority, but it's not okay to strive for more equal income between everyone?
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)that you can't fix stupid and that for avarice there is no such thing as enough.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Not sure you'll get too many really novel answers.
kctim
(3,575 posts)and do not share in your fearful opinions of conspiracy theories.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)I wish it was a conspiracy, then we could just remove the cabal running things, instead of removing the system.
kctim
(3,575 posts)It is the way YOU believe, and therefore see the system, as working. You take the most extreme examples, apply them to the whole in a very generalized sense, in order to "justify" why what YOU believe is how things "really" are.
The funny thing is that you feel "controlled," wrongly "jailed," "judged," "exploited," "condemned" and "ruled" ONLY because it is not your personal beliefs that are determining all of those things.
Can we improve? Always.
Should we "remove the system" so that the few people who agree with can rule and control the people how YOU think is best? No. Never.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)don't understand capitalism and it's implications... and the post is not conspiracy theory... it is what we live
kctim
(3,575 posts)EVERYBODY is dumb but YOU. Only YOU have seen the light.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)and no need to be a smartass... you are willfully misrepresenting what I said
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)so are you above or below the military? Heh heh.
kctim
(3,575 posts)And the hundreds of OWS yahoos and all of the anti-capitalist representives the voters have voted for, prove it.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)1911 ed.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)I really do believe this. The programming begins the day we're born.
By the time we're old enough to think for ourselves, rebelling and being repelled by unregulated/under regulated capitalism unacceptable behavior.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Working Class Hero - J. Lennon
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)* Intellectual Curiosity has been bred out of Americans,
and Outsude-the-Box-Thinking has been demonized in our schools,
and in our society
*The History of the Class Struggle and the Labor Movement
has been eliminated from our History Books
*The BIG LIE works
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"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."[/font]
---volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925)
*"You can't tax the Job Creators!"
*"America is the greatest nation in the World."
*"Anyone can get rich in America if they work hard enough!"
(Feel free to add your own Big LIE).
*Most of America is stuck at the Cognitive and Emotional Development of Middle Childhood,
where Authority Figures are gods,
"Father" is infallible and requires unquestioned loyalty,
abstraction is difficult/impossible,
External Validation is necessary,
the World is divided into US vs Them,
binary choice thinking (Black vs White) and immediate gratification dominate.
*"WINNING" an external and arbitrary goal as defined by "the gods" ***AT ANY COST*** has become the Raison D'Entre.
When is the last time you heard anyone say:
its HOW you play the game"?
THAT has been replaced in our American culture with:
*Courage to Do-the-Right-Thing and Living-by-Principles are DEAD.
FEAR rules.
(This is actually a characteristic of Middle Childhood Development, but worth repeating.
("If you don't do THIS, the boogieman gets you!")
Aside from THAT ^,
I got nothin.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)are willing to be lied to by those who own them.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)as long as they get just enough, everything is fine. Some in this thread probably live well off and are pissed at this thread, because they KNOW that illustration nails them with the truth.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)because the people who own the country are willing to do whatever it takes to keep it that way.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)than the very powerful maintaining the status quo. It is the difference between acceleration and velocity.