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Date Posted: 10:32:50 10/24/08 Fri
Author: Ned
Author Host/IP: 75.106.171.2
Subject: Dawg - "It is not in the nature...
In reply to: Prairie Dawg 's message, "Open Letter to Joe Wurzelbacher" on 22:42:59 10/23/08 Thu

... of the working classes to vote in their own interests" - K. Marx.

As wrong as he was about so many things, Marx was also right about a goodly number and this is one of them. In a kind of precursor insight to the Stockholm Syndrome, he noted that serfs have always psychologically identified their interests with those of the very aristocrats who oppress them, peons with the interests of their Padrones, and even slaves with their masters!

And of course, there is truth in that. Being a slave - in good times - is a far more stable, secure, predictable life than being "free,:" free to fail, free to starve, isolated and alone, with no patriarchal, hierarchical system to take care of you,with no one to blame except yourself...

In a recent poll, nearly 70% of respondents said that they opposed inheritance taxes. When they were reminded that the tax only affected those with estates valued at more than $2M (about 5% of the population), they still said they objected. When asked why, they declared that they themselves might one day amass such an estate (which less than 5% will!) and wouldn't want their heirs to have to pay taxes on it.

When asked how they planned to amass a $2M estate, more than 50% said they planned to win the lottery.

Ain't it great to be an Amurricun?

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