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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:46 PM Original message |
Why Americans vote against their own self interest: "None of us is really poor; we're just pre-rich" |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. Several years back, there was a survey |
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bluethruandthru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. They want to make sure that when they strike it rich |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. That is what they have taught the poor and stupid. |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Horatio Alger myth; Gramsci spoke to this |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The Horatio Alger model - |
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athenasatanjesus (592 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. Haters gotta Hate! |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. Another form of audacity of hope OR |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. Interesting ... THANKS for posting this |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Almost every poor person I know thinks that they'll hit the lottery someday |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. It would help if politicians REPRESENTED our interests n/t |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. yep. False hope is the most American of ideologies. |
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hadrons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-04-11 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. Many less affluent see the rich as the same as them .... |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-11 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
13. The American populace's capacity for self-delusion |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-11 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think this is the symptom, not the cause... |
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