Do you think that the oppressed lower classes in the United States will rise up and strike the upper classes in the near future??? If you think so, why and how? If you think not, why?
2007-09-27 10:49:26 · 14 answers · asked by aperfectlittlething 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
With what? are they going to throw welfare checks at us?
2007-09-27 10:52:53 · answer #1 · answered by El Guapo 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Um...no. Here's why: In the US it is completely plausible to go from extreme poverty to relative affluence in a single generation with the right effort. It is near impossible short of genuine incompetence and complete lack of ability at anyting to not move from poverty to at least lower middle class lifestyle as long as effort is put in.
Look at all the opporunities: scholarshis, community colleges, entreprenuership (where 90% of millionaire in this county come from, small family owned businesses), joining a 100% voluntary and fairly well compensated (at least compared to most countries) Army that offers endless job training and tutition assistance benefits. Those "oppressed" are for the most part just unwilling to help themselves (I'm willing to accept that there are those who have just caught bad breaks in life, but even still in this society a bad break keeps you from accumulating wealth, not living in poverty). If they're too lazy to do that, they're certanly too lazt to revolt, which would require a lot more work with proabbaly less reward than just applying themselves at a goal.
So paired with the fact that most people who live in poverty in this country still live better than most people in the world (including much of the industrialized word), then no there won't be an "uprising" just endless complaining from those who want a free lunch.
2007-09-27 18:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by Some dude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only when people are truly desparate would they do that. With programs such as welfare, Social Security, food stamps etc. people en masse do not get desparate. One or two here and there might but not enough to cause an uprising. Take those away from them and they will become desparate for food, shelter and heat the basics of human existance and you bet they will rise up.
2007-09-27 17:54:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hopefully yes. The lower classes have been oppressed under capitalism for to long now.
2007-09-27 18:06:01 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Dog 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not likely. The 'lower classes' receive enough government largese (tax burden borne by the middle class, of course) to keep them relatively docile.
2007-09-27 18:10:09 · answer #5 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If you think that people are truly oppressed in this country then you have lost all faith in what makes this country great. A little desire and elbow grease can still make dreams come true in this country. What's so oppressive about that?
2007-09-27 17:54:41 · answer #6 · answered by KRR 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not a chance. There is no oppression of "lower classes" in part because there are no "lower classes."
2007-09-27 17:52:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No
The lower classes have been thriving under the Bush economy. They have never done better!
2007-09-27 17:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by PNAC ~ Penelope 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No proletariat revolution because they buy into the bourgeois idea of dominance (American dream) so they will always be oppressed
2007-09-27 18:01:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The feed is good for the bottom feeders,good republican leadership and lots of good vibrations from the PNAC and school of conservative thinking.of course there is always a few,haaa,,apes in the bunch looking for free lunches....chow,,,,freepress
2007-09-27 17:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the Republicans stay in power either by an honest election or a stolen one, and they continue to systematically destroy the middle and lower classes in any way possible and to their own benefit, Yes.
2007-09-27 17:55:19 · answer #11 · answered by B. D Mac 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋