Why wouldn't the 95% of Americans who constantly get screwed by the richest 5% vote Socialist?

Question

I don't want to move. I was just wondering why Americans are so content and happy to get buggered.

Answer 1

You pose a very good question. How do you spell "brainwashing" or "propaganda"? How do you spell "conned"? How do you spell “dumbed down to point of acceptance of anything that does challenge their status quo? What you refer to, really, is the class struggle of the ages.

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be,” Thomas Jefferson declared in 1816.

"Fascism is capitalism in decay." Vladimir Lenin

“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds." Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997)

"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."Ramsey Clark - U. S. Attorney General
During the height of chattel slavery in America, the plantation owners did not allow their slaves to be educated. An educated slave was a dangerous slave who posed a threat to the status quo. Ability to read was punishable by death and often was upheld. Knowledge is power in the hands of an oppressed people. The ruling clique has always found mass ignorance to their benefit. An ignorant public is an easily deceived and easily controlled citizenry.

"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their foocking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what we'll tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!" Bill Hicks

The commercial media, the church, and the public education system in all their incarnations, not as public servants, but as the tools of Plutocracy and empire have the purpose not to inform but to dominate and propagandize, which they do only too well. The history of working people is that of class struggle and oppression; a fight for equal footing and social justice against the owner merchant class of old, and the ruling clique of today.

Typically, the American workplace has a hierarchal structure, usually with a white male presiding at the top, dictating policy and issuing orders. The workers, who produce the wealth by manufacturing a product or performing services, have little or no say in company policy or how the work is performed. While few workers are willing to view the workplace in such austere terms for reasons that should be obvious, the American place of work is essentially a plantation, a dictatorship, with a master and a bevy of slaves following orders in exchange for subsistence wages. NAFTA allowed them to shift their plantations to China where there is an even cheaper slave labor market. The best example to use as an example of these policies is WalMart.

http://judicial-inc.biz/wal_mart__waltons.htm

The Illuminati owns Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart has 700 plants in China. There is almost nothing in a Walmart store that comes from America, despite all the eagles on the wall. They say "Buy American" and there's little from America in their stores. In China they will hire a factory and right next to it will be the sister factory which is inside a prison. You can imagine the conditions of these workers producing this lovely stuff for Walmart.

The American workplace is sharply divided by class, like society as a whole, as part of the organizational hierarchy. The chain of command consists of owners, managers, and workers. The higher one is placed within the hierarchy, the greater his/her socio-economic status. The pecking order can be subdivided into two broad categories: White collar jobs and blue collar jobs. White collar jobs typically require more refined skills than blue collar jobs. They tend to offer better pay and more benefits, but also result in more stress, greater responsibility, and longer hours. The lowest level is the drones, the workers, producers of nearly all of the wealth.

Workers receive only a small percentage of the wealth they create for their employers, which is why capitalists created the private ownership of economic production. Such an arrangement provides inordinate power to property holders and leaves non property owners with little besides their labor to sell to the lowest bidder.

"I looked up the word politics in the dictionary. It's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means many, and tics, which means bloodsuckers." Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show"

"It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion." Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Social cooperatives, while imperfect and still forced to compete in capital markets, have provided considerable improvement and a measure of relief for workers over more conventional business models. The largest and most widely known example is the Mondragon cooperative in Spain.

http://www.justpeace.org/mondragon.htm
A Better Place to go to Word
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC02/Gilman2.htm
Mondragón: The Remarkable Achievement Pioneering a significant social invention in the Basque region of northern Spain. This is amazing!

The American worker, like the chattel slave before him, is kept in a state of perpetual ignorance for fear that he/she might awaken and rebel. Rebellion was the greatest fear that haunted the dreams of the plantation owners, and continues to trouble the dreams of the ruling clique, which explains why we are under constant surveillance by the government. They are looking for signs of trouble, the tell-tale smoke of social upheaval born of organization.

Students of American labor history, cannot help but come to the realization that we have been had, sold a defective bill of goods that can never work for us or the rest of the world. The American dream is a myth that was fabricated in the corporate board rooms of America and perpetuated in the corporate media. Ninety-five percent of the people will never have pie in the sky, no matter how long and hard they work. A life of ease is something that is reserved for the privileged few who do not work and produce nothing. The myth was created to keep the workers striving, and to keep the rabble in line. It is a myth with the power of a paradigm and it has been extremely effective as a method of control and motivation.

“These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Americans awaken and educate yourselves. Study events that transpired in places like Haymarket Square, in Chicago; at Ludlow, Colorado, and in the hills of Matewan, West Virginia; the steel mills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the knitting mills of Massachusetts, and the rail yards at Martinsburg, West Virginia. THIS AMERICAN PERIOD OF HISTORY IS OMITTED FROM THE CURRICULUM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS because such knowledge might empower the people.

We owe something to those courageous souls and we should never allow their remembrance to lapse into the Orwellian memory hole now created by historical revisionists (the elite). America was not always so TAME, so INDIFFERENT, COWARDLY OR COMPLACENT in the face of injustice.

Due to the fierce resistance of our working ancestors, we know that we have origins born of struggle and a fighting spirit to be free; a spirit that lies dormant, but is not wholly dead. Ours is a history that MUST be re-awakened and taken to heart if we have the courage and the wisdom to embrace it, and to be as strong and tenacious as were our ancestors for the sake of our children.

All hell broke loose in the streets of France when employers attempted to place at will tags on its workers last year. The worker’s retribution was swift and fierce. In America, where the people always bow their heads to illegitimate authority, hardly a whimper of protest was heard. And we despise the French because?

Each year the American worker loses more ground to the elite without resistance. That ground was hard won with the blood and guts of our ancestors in organized labor, a lesson we seem to have forgotten in this age of capitulation and moral cowardice. Thus we find ourselves as a class, and as a nation, falling deeper into the throes of darkening corporate and state fascism.

The struggles of the working people were immortalized in the songs of Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and many others. Their music is as relevant today as when they were written, but they are no longer widely known. Their words are powerful and motivating.

http://www.kued.org/joehill/voices/article.html
Site on Joe Hill and his music
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/album-B0000026V0.html
Pete Seeger – Lyrics
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Lyrics.htm
Words to Woodie Guthrie’s music. OMG they are SO powerful! No wonder he is father of the awareness in music movement of the 60’s forward!

The economic, social, and environmental costs of corporate globalization are felt by workers around the world. Corporate profits and CEO compensation have risen to record levels, while poverty and economic hardship have followed a similar, but downward arc, for the producers. The wealthiest people on earth are enjoying obscene profits by exploiting workers worldwide, especially in war torn parts of the world. Then they profit from the creation and selling of the munitions for the wars they create.

Capitalism is not eradicating poverty and raising living standards anywhere, as its proponents so boldly proclaim; it is spreading deepening poverty, environmental degradation and economic and social disparity, while it intensifies socio-economic class divisions, and foments war after imperial war in its quest for profits and hegemony.

Capitalism has always waged class war on the workers. The war on workers has resulted in a permanent war economy in the U.S., the demonization of revolutionary labor unions by corporate America and its media whores, and a steady supply of cannon fodder for imperial wars and occupations. Working people must realize that foreign wars are an extension of the class war at home and refuse to take up arms in them.

"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace." - Benito Mussolini

http://www.truemajority.org/fun/
American Military Spending Explained in Oreo Cookies

http://www.savethemales.ca/000357.html
American Troops are Rothschild Proxies in Iraq

As we look to the democrats in Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and to divert another impending disaster in Iran, (AS IF!) we must recognize that, like the commercial media, these people are working for the elite not for the public good.

Will funding continue for the occupation? The answer is a resounding "yes" as long as workers allow themselves to be the pawns of the ruling clique and maintain a slavish mentality toward their oppressors in government and the Military Industrial Complex.

It is time to reclaim the fighting spirit that once characterized the American worker. It is time to bring back Revolutionary Unionism and the radical advocacy of worker’s rights, including the public ownership of the mechanisms of production. If we are serious about democracy in America, the workplace would be a good place to start. But we prefer to talk about democracy rather than to actually implement it.

We have yet to learn the songs of Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger—songs that are deeply rooted in the class struggles of working people against their oppressors. And we have yet to learn the lessons of history, which condemns us to repeat them in an endless cycle of want and waste, war and famine. Until we do, nothing much is going to change.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group." Franklin D. Roosevelt

So for those of you who are in that 95% wake up and get your respective asses in gear. Things won’t change unless you fight for yourselves! Americans are by far too apathetic to what is being done to them within their own borders because they are being diverted by the horrors of what their government is doing elsewhere in the name of same “democracy” that keeps them under the thumbs of the 5%.

Don't move away Ja... Stay and wise up and start to fight back.

Answer 2

The top 1% of taxpayers in America pay 25% of the taxes collected. So go socialist and watch them and their money disappear. The other 4% of the richest pay a disproportionate share too, and you can bet they will be hard on the heels of the top guys. So then you have a HUGE drop in tax revenues plus you lose the investment stimulus of the wealth that just headed for Switzerland. Now you have no jobs and no revenues plus a lot of folks who are expecting cradle to grave entitlements from Big Brother. Have fun with your socialist fantasy.

Answer 3

Actually, it goes along with a long history of democracy and capitalism. Almost every American believes in the "American Dream"- one day we can be rich and powerful if we work hard. That ideal is so deeply ingrained in our culture that few people even think to doubt it. Every little kid grows up hearing "you can be anything you want to be." Additionally, Americans (since the beginning) are notorious for their dislike of government interference. Hence the Bill of Rights. Socialism requires alot of government control. Furthermore, capitalism is deeply ingrained in American culture as well. Most American business owners (small or large business) don't want the government to compete with their sales. However, we have adopted some socialist policies, such as welfare, social security, and hopefully one day we will have universal healthcare. Some aspects of socialism are good, but most Americans are quite content with democracy and capitalism as we all believe we could be part of that 5% if we just work hard enough.

Answer 4

I think its because Socialist governments rarely work, in my opinion, because of the extremes of our society. There are those who value wealth above all else and will sacrifice people and principles to get and then there are those that are lazy and sponge off the good will of others by taking advantage of the support mechanisms in place to help those who need it.

Then there are the extreme elements of politics. The extremes on the right, who believe everything can be solved with brute force and everyone should be able to help themselves and those on the left, who believe that we should all be so politically correct that we throw common sense out the window and let anyone with half a brain walk all over us.

Unfortunately, so many of us who sit in the middle ground of all this have become so lost in this insanity that we just let it play out and go on with our lives, when usually we are the ones worst affected by it.

Answer 5

Well about 70% of that 95% doesn't vote in the first place. That mindset is why they aren't in the other 5%

Answer 6

The American dream is not a delusional one. We are not a stupid people, maybe a little naive at times but the brass ring does exist. Of course it is not easy to achieve great wealth in this country or any other, but your odds here are a lot better than anywhere else. There are obvious advantages to socialism, but as a whole I look at past and present socialist countries and say "thanks but no thanks"

Answer 7

They aren't educated or informed enough to understand they are being screwed if they even vote.They fall for cheap anti tax rhetoric while the reality is tax cuts almost always go to the rich
People are being distracted every day from fundamental issue's like this one by infotainment and demagogy that poisons their minds and keeps them from seeing the truth.

Answer 8

Because then they would be screwed by the other 95%.
Owning the product of my own sweat and labor minus taxes is not a bad thing. Everyone else owning it, and passing me what they feel I need is.

Answer 9

I truly believe that America's diversity is what is difficult in pressing forward with social legislation in America. Nations with better socialized programs consist, typically, with a population mostly of one race or heritage. That is why "the race card", and subtle influences thereof, is used in this country, with success.

Answer 10

Well, that's just it...they don't know they are getting buggered. As long as they are distracted with their 50k SUV's and other consumerist toys which do nothing but induce debt, they think the system is working for them.

Answer 11

A VERY good question! Hatred and resentment for the wealthy abounds in this country...which is ripe territory for socialism.

People defend America as a capitalist nation when it suits them...but don't really believe in capitalism in its truest sense. Its all alot of ignorance and hypocritical thinking...