1: Ronald Reagan. Millions of idiots (yes idiots) voted for him because 'He was such an nice man.", voting against their interests and pocketbooks. The plutocrats NEVER vote against their interests.
2: Values Voters. Those voting for (traditional family values, (famedy, warmedy, sedanedy, vanedy values) ) against their own economic interests. Hardly any of those anti-liberty measures have been enacted, even when the pols who support them have been in control. But their dupes still vote for the values pols who pick their pockets, because the mountebanks of the churches they go tell them to.
3: The end of the 'Cold War'. The Russian and Chinese revolutions terrified the plutocrats. So they toned down somewhat their opposition to organized labor. [Not completely: Remember the outcry about corrupt unions, 'Union Bosses', and the demonization of union leaders. Hollywood bears some blame for this. Remember all the movies with Mob connected Union leaders.] They saw that the workers would fight for socialism and worker control. When State Socialism collapsed, due to not having worker control, the plutocrats saw they could claw back all they had given up. They outsourced well paid jobs, and pocketed the difference. They gutted organized labor, and pocketed the difference. They plundered pension funds and robbed home owners and pocketed the profits.
What's the solution? An actual revolution. But I don't see one happening, not in this country. The old lefties like myself are too old for active campaigning. (I'm almost sixty.) The liberals have eaten too much Gandhi to take up the rifle, and too many are distracted by trifles like Spider Woman's butt. Others are terrified by the militarized police. The armed right, many who despise the banksters? Mak'st me not to laff. Most think that they can be plutocrats if they buy the right lottery ticket. The rest are merely blusterers. Send some soldiers to take them, and the Open Carry loons and Cliven Bundys will collapse.
Wolf
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