Why are these people not upset with corporations?

[TwixVoy]

Seems to me that if ANY power has been responsible for keeping wages down, keeping us a slave to debt, it would be the corporations.

Yet I have not seen one picture from these events mentioning this once.

Funny how that works. Half these fools probably want to protect the mega corporation structure because they have been convinced by the republicans one day they too can be a CEO.

[LSK]

1. because they are DAMN FOOLS

As Thom Hartmann points out (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/15-10) the original tea party was against tax breaks for trans-national corporations.

[dem629]

2. Because they're only interested in bashing Obama

[AspenRose]

12. *ding* *ding* *ding*

:thumbsup:

[Muttocracy]

3. yep, they fantasize that they'll be millionaire CEOs any day now...

thus Joe the Plumber worship :eyes:

[uppityperson]

4. The Lottery mentality. Maybe THEY will be the one to win big, be rich, and damned if anyone

will take any of THEIR hard earned (?) money from them!!!11

[SeattleGirl]

6. Thom Hartmann calls it the False American Dream: that everyone

can be rich beyond their wildest dreams.

And you're right: that's why they worship Joe the Plumber.

And it's also why they call into talk shows like Thom's, and defend the rich fucks who have all kinds of ways not to pay taxes.

And why so many of them vote against their own interests.

Gotta save the rich folk, 'cause the teabaggers are gonna be rich someday too. :eyes:

[ForrestGump]

15. Maybe it's Ed McMahon's fault,

for sending out all those envelopes letting us know that we (may) have already won!

[Muttocracy]

23. Yeah, lottery tickets are tempting too but I got As in math and statistics... nt

[HughBeaumont]

18. Horatio Alger is alive and well in Dumberica.

They'll be DAMNED if that "soshulist" Obama is going to come in the way of THEIR hypothetical success.

[cliffordu]

5. Corporations tell them what to believe, what to wear, what to watch,

Corporations define their entire lives.

They are not Americans, so much as consumers.

They cannot exist, psychologically or emotionally without the instruction and the blessing of the corporations.

[Kitty Herder]

10. Yep.

I think that's a big part of it. It's like Stockholm Syndrome in a way.

[cliffordu]

19. Heh. Retail Stockholm Syndrome...

[Quantess]

7. Rush Limbaugh didn't tell them to be.

FOX gives giant corporations a pass, so the mindless viewers do, too. Nobody connected the dots for them, so it doesn't occur to them to be upset at anybody but Obama.

[bridgit]

8. They're members of the GOP/Rick Santelli investor class...

When they're clicking for them, corporations afford the GOP/Rick Santelli investor class the means to feel way they do; feel they are free, independent thinkers. I'll bet it's right there in the glossy prospectus they receive quarterly, or used to. They've had a noteworthy run as no-bid crony war profiteers and they want that back dammit! They have no quibble with corporations; fact they want back in bed with those special corps, they're willing to carry corporate GOP water for splits, options, and lucrative returns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDrVc4Tcx_A&feature=related

[earth mom]

9. I can't make heads or tails out of this teabagging circus.

Are people really out there protesting taxes while greedy a$$ corporations and the very rich pay very little in taxes? :wtf:

How in the hell can they not see that they are the ones being screwed over by corporate america and the rich?!!!

[LynnTheDem]

11. Fox "News" and Rush haven't told them to be.

They only do(think/feel/say) what Fox "News" and Rush tell them.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Not all corporations are bad necessarily.

Giant multi-national ones that incorporate in a post office box overseas to shirk their responsibilities are, but not every corporation is run by GOPers.

[ladjf]

14. Ignorance. nt

[Locrian]

16. We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls

Good article (long, but good)

Bageant: We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls -- It's Time to Do Something Meaningful

"The most chilling accomplishment of American capitalist culture is that we have commodified our own consciousness."

The following text is drawn from a series of recent speeches delivered by Joe Bageant, including at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago.


http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/135162/bageant:_we%27ve_let_corporations_and_media_rob_our_souls_--_it%27s_time_to_do_something_meaningful/

[mmonk]

17. Corporations are the center of their religion.

[Norquist Nemesis]

20. *ahem* Brainwashed?

Just sayin'.

[Echo In Light]

21. ...the result of which is the desired misperception which benefits corporate rule

[Norquist Nemesis]

22. Misdirection