Why have the Majority Of Americans become so very much in favor of Feudalism?

[Moonwalk]

4. Americans have always supported Feudalism--really. Because they have a religious belief...

that they can become its king rather than its serf. You seem to forget, by the way, that in the 1790's only male property owners could vote. And most of the revolutionary leaders believed that only a gentleman (a rich landowner) should be president--hence, even as they screamed for freedom from kings, the wealthy and powerful in the U.S. supported a system that would keep only American aristocrats (landed gentlemen) in power. In half the U.S. slave ownership was legal up till 1865 (feudalism), and plantation owners lived and acted like aristocrats. In 1860 Prince Edward (who would be King Edward VII) visited the U.S. and both old money and new money society went crazy over him. This started a movement that lasted up through the early 1900's of marrying off rich American daughters to impoverished British aristocracy. Because being rich wasn't enough. The uber-weathy also wanted a title.

Which is all to say, Americans have always had a split personality, an inferiority complex if you like, since the break with Britain. Half the time they've held it as superior that "anyone" can be president, and been leery of those who seemed to aristocratic and snobby (see Mitt Romney). At these times, they've wanted the U.S. to seem very democratic and homey--like Clinton, a down-home boy from Arkansas. Other times, they have wanted a more aristocratic type of president--a mythic king to symbolize the U.S. as being aristocratic in the most mythical way--like Kennedy and Camelot. Handsome, rich, elegant, enlightened, saving the world.

It's this mythic side of the aristocracy that we can't let go of--because we have a religious faith that we can have it. Make it real. After all, American doesn't just promise that anyone can be president, but also that anyone can be rich. And rich = aristocrat. Romantic shows/movies for women are all Cinderella stories, where the poor girl marries the rich bachelor (or, in some instances, literally a prince). And Americans have always been gah-gah over the British royal family, and shows like Downton Abby that perpetuate the myth of Noblesse Oblige--that feudalism can not only work, but be the best system for everyone.

Our mythos, memes and such came from being originally British. And our win over the British was with the help of the French--an aristocracy we didn't object to at all (though Jefferson--a plantation owner--was happy enough to see the revolutionaries cutting off aristocratic heads; ironic that). Like I said, split personality.

Americans support feudalism and always have, simply, because they believe the myth that anyone can become the king (read "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fiztgerald to understand this imbedded psychology better). As they all want to be kings, they refuse to acknowledge that upholding such a system is actually to their detriment and against what democracy is really all about. And as faith in this myth is always of benefit to the wealthy, there is never any reason for those in power to point out to those not in power that is it a myth.