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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Tue Dec 29, 2015, 03:27 PM Dec 2015

Americans Seem To Buy Into "Dog Eat Dog" Economy With No Safety Net. [View all]

If Americans really believed in a shared society where there is a health safety net for all, Bernie Sanders would beat everyone hands down by large margins. Trump's popularity, RW inroads in shredding the safety net, anti unionism and support for other anti progressive policies seem to show that libertarianism is quite popular.

Our mental mind set could be part of desperation that is so widespread. And maybe corporate propaganda has been very effective. We are destined to hand and fail because we seem to have lost common goals.

The fact that workers are not kicking back on the new 1099 model of the economy where jobs are just temporary and day labor jobs is hard to understand. There is no future for workers in a largely "task rabbit" economy. Employment anarchy is the only result of such a model.

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Americans Seem To Buy Into "Dog Eat Dog" Economy With No Safety Net. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Dec 2015 OP

The USA and it's predecessor colonies never had an aristocrat/serf social structure... brooklynite Dec 2015 #1

Except for slavery! GeorgeGist Dec 2015 #20

And indentured servitude! - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2015 #21

When there is no effective opposition, then the myths stand entrenched. nt Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #2

The noxious lie that real, effective regulation of the economy... Lizzie Poppet Dec 2015 #4

"I consider this situation to be unrecoverable, at least for the nation as currently constituted." RKP5637 Dec 2015 #8

Wealth and power were even more concentrated in the 1920's. It took FDR to correct that. pampango Dec 2015 #13

People are largely just lost KentuckyWoman Dec 2015 #3

Hmmm. GummyBearz Dec 2015 #5

Extremely well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2015 #6

I have long believed that the workers who vote against their best interests truly believe CTyankee Dec 2015 #9

Exactly! It's the 'carrot and stick' mentality in the US. I just have to work harder and RKP5637 Dec 2015 #15

Plus, the RW feeds the dark racism underlying so much of their message...yes, the CTyankee Dec 2015 #16

These are very troubling times, and some politicians pitting segments of society against RKP5637 Dec 2015 #17

Like Scott Walker said "Divide and conquer." CTyankee Dec 2015 #25

Yes, same tactics as dictators rise to power, same old formula. Quite concerning to RKP5637 Dec 2015 #27

Yes and when they get old and realize they aren't going to be millionaires treestar Dec 2015 #18

It' those damn Liberals, neoliberals, that is safeinOhio Dec 2015 #7

When did Ebeneezer Scrooge win the morality fight? nt TeamPooka Dec 2015 #24

You really think they're flying solo? Baitball Blogger Dec 2015 #10

The racial hatred deliberately stoked by TPTB is a large part of the problem, I think. tblue37 Dec 2015 #11

henever I hear about ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2015 #28

This article explains why extremely well: Basically, it's out of spite. frizzled Dec 2015 #12

It's expressed in other ways, as well loyalsister Dec 2015 #14

Tough to have common goals The2ndWheel Dec 2015 #19

Ahem: A 'dog eat dog economy' is just another way to say 'capitalism' - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2015 #22

Most Americans would rather hope to be rich some day rather than acknowledge they are poor. nt TeamPooka Dec 2015 #23

Temporarily embarrassed millionaires gratuitous Dec 2015 #26

They are the 'future-rich". nt TeamPooka Dec 2015 #29