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

[JReed]

27. The pin holding the whole machine together

is the reality that a substantial bloc of Americans hold the sentiment _ it isn't logically developed enough to be called 'belief' _ that there is nobility, morality and strength in sacrificing oneself to private financial profit, even if it's the profit of others.

We cling to a belief that accumulating wealth is the result of diligent adherence to a system of morality, justice and fairness. It is, by definition, religion. We believe that our military, police, and some politicians are out to nobly protect this system, so we pay them obeisance. We denounce those who disagree as, very literally, heretics, traitors, weaklings who would deprive others of their deserved reward.

If this pin can be pulled _ if a critical mass of Americans can comprehend that private institutions can oppress as effectively as 'public' ones, and that our State religion of 'work-ocracy' is cynically being used as a tool by the wealthy, the whole machine will fall apart in an instant.