Why haven't american workers woken up?

[Populist_Prole]

16. Guns, religion, and some selfishness

Seriously. As long as they are single/double social issue voters, they will continue to carry water for the same crowd that is squeezing the life out of their peers. Those not yet negatively affected suffer from a combination of selfishness and confirmation bias: As long as they themselves are OK, they have no trouble bashing other working class types, and they're sure not going to rock the boat of their comfortable worldview by thinking too hard.

I can agree with 'MrSlayer' in his post above. I'm in a similar situation: In a union shop, though we don't have all that many teabaggers in my workplace as he has in his, I still see far too many narrow and selfish jerks who vote republican for the reason I stated in the first paragraph. When it comes to labor/solidarity etc, they're all for that....for them. Everybody else is overpaid. The other ones are paranoid gun nuts or fundies who cow to authority and have an "honor thy employer as they putteth food upon thy table" attitude.