Stockholm syndrome in the US. Why do Repubs root for their captors anyway?

[There Is No Spoon]

Some random thoughts I had while chatting with a friend tonight after WI was called...

... kind of infuriating how many people are obsessed with what teachers etc. are making. Don't look to the Dems when school systems go to hell and a hand basket. It seems we're in a state of decline as a country based on such small thinking

...punishing the average people - being jealous of them does not bode well for our nation - people shouldn't be feeling so put upon. It says to me that we're going down the shitter when we start being penny wise and pound foolish.

I wonder how long before the rich start buying barricades?

They are fomenting hatred and it WILL turn on them if they overdo it.

Link: Why the Wealthy Are Afraid Of Violence From Below



I hope this episode wakes a few people up - before it's too late.

[KonaKane]

Repubs still vote against their own interests for the same reason they always have....as I paraphrase from H.L. Mencken, they think if they keep voting for them "by some act of God" they will be as rich as the 1%.

Another tidbit from an American author:

"Socialism will never take in the USA, because there are no poor people. Only temporarily inconvenienced millionaires."

- John Steinbeck

[jaxx]

Maybe Citizens United will provide them with barricades. The Roberts Court could approve it 5-4.