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In reply to the discussion: WE HAVE LOST OUR SOUL [View all]llmart
(15,536 posts)with many good analyses and comments. However, my only question to anyone on here would be this - why oh why do many in the middle class in this country vote for these people? Are they really that gullible? Have they really lost all common sense? What responsibility do some in the middle class who continue to vote against their own self interest bear? Is it that we have lost all common sense?
What was the leading news story on my local news two days ago? A reporter outside a mall early in the morning interviewing people who had been standing in line since four in the morning perfectly giddy at the opportunity to buy the latest I-phone, as if their lives depended on it. There has always been advertising but people were more discerning about how they spent their time and money.
I'm not trying to place blame here on the middle class. I just am trying to understand that in my almost 65 years on this earth how we have gotten to this point where the masses are so easily bamboozled by capitalism.
Maybe someone who is more articulate than I am right now can explain it to me. I ask myself this every day. Why can't more people see that if we're going to live in a capitalist society, than we do have some power not to buy the extraneous goods and services that we can do without. It may be the only way to have any power at our middle class level.