• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because most of the working class are convinced that this system is the best one, they just think the other political party and their voters are the reason everything sucks.

    It’s really genius.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Can’t afford to exist though either, so surely doing all out on the one that might actually get change is the better way?

      (that’s more rhetorical, sadly I am well aware of all of the hurdles put in our way by the very system we seek to destroy, and that keeping us fighting for survival, and against each other, so that we have no energy or resources to fight those in power is a feature not a bug)

  • yeeter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Answering as an American:

    Because the working class understands that “elites” are a necessary decadence and side effect of free markets, and they are fine with billionaires if it means those free markets enable them to live like a king from the 1800s, and they are not consumed with narcissistic jealousy of people that have more than them. Plus they understand history, and they see how class wars worked out in the Bolshevik revolution.

    I consider myself rich AF, because I have a roof over my head, AC, and healthy food to eat, which is RELATIVELY easy to come by in America. Tradespeople like plumbers and electricians are doing very well in America, and if they are reasonably fiscally responsible and save their money well, then they can retire comfortably after 15-20 years of work.

    Many people all over the world understand all of this, and they clamor to immigrate to America.