Closer to 30% of people willing to participate in polls even. We have a media apparatus which platforms and empowers these people, but they are absolutely overrepresented in the national consciousness. Since we tend to recall these inflammatory voices more than the more common people mainly minding their own business wanting to live and let live, it can appear that half the country are psychopathic when there is not sufficient objective evidence to support that perception. I agree there are too many people in the Q anon camp and this group of religious fascists is causing all of us tons of problems, but most people are not that unreasonable.
That and you can be way more energetic living in a fantasy land in which you’re a hero than trying to realistically address the myriad issues which exist in the world which can be overwhelming and exhausting. We weren’t built for this.
Not only that, but 50% of the 90% are absolutely, completely convinced that they are on the very cusp of being the 1%. It’ll happen tomorrow. Or next week. Maybe next month. Or, look, by next year at the very latest. And when they get to be the top 1% through all their hard work, they don’t want the government to take it all away, since they know that they earned it honestly and will therefore deserve to keep it.
They are never going to be millionaires, but they believe if they just put in a couple more extra hours of work, then they will be.
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
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If 90% are not able to vote for parties that tax the 1%, then democracy doesn’t work. What has to change?
Or 90% know that they don’t care about investing money and prefer to leave that decision to the 1%.
50% of the 90% are convinced that the party of the 1% has their best interests at heart and really care about identity politics.
I’ll let you try and figure out which party that is.
It’s closer to 30% I believe.
Closer to 30% of people willing to participate in polls even. We have a media apparatus which platforms and empowers these people, but they are absolutely overrepresented in the national consciousness. Since we tend to recall these inflammatory voices more than the more common people mainly minding their own business wanting to live and let live, it can appear that half the country are psychopathic when there is not sufficient objective evidence to support that perception. I agree there are too many people in the Q anon camp and this group of religious fascists is causing all of us tons of problems, but most people are not that unreasonable.
That and you can be way more energetic living in a fantasy land in which you’re a hero than trying to realistically address the myriad issues which exist in the world which can be overwhelming and exhausting. We weren’t built for this.
Not only that, but 50% of the 90% are absolutely, completely convinced that they are on the very cusp of being the 1%. It’ll happen tomorrow. Or next week. Maybe next month. Or, look, by next year at the very latest. And when they get to be the top 1% through all their hard work, they don’t want the government to take it all away, since they know that they earned it honestly and will therefore deserve to keep it.
They are never going to be millionaires, but they believe if they just put in a couple more extra hours of work, then they will be.
Which of the two parties you have to choose from in the US would actually change that?
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
Which explains why education funds are pretty much always gutted by certain groups in the US.
Easier to keep people scared when you don’t let them learn about what they’re afraid of in the first place