Beacon of Stupidity

[kpete]

Tageblatt, Luxembourg

Beacon of Stupidity

By Sascha Bremer

There is a system to the whole thing, and it is highly rational, albeit only from the perspective of the fat cats who have, thanks to Fox News and the guardians of anti-communism on radio and television, persuaded the infuriated middle class to praise every stupid attack on the state and public welfare as a victory for freedom.

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.......Ever since Reagan’s presidency, Americans have been cutting social programs, having been led to believe the motto, “Smaller government leaves more money in the citizens’ wallets.”* In reality, American society has become more divided than ever. In May, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz calculated that in the last ten years alone, the income of the richest one percent of Americans has increased 18 percent. In contrast, the entire middle class saw its income shrink. The hardest hit people have been male, blue-collars workers who “only” have a high school diploma. Their incomes sank by 12 percent during the same span of time.

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The only thing that is missing is for the Americans to collectively notice that the country that fancies itself a “beacon of democracy” degenerated into a tyranny run by an economic minority quite a while ago.

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We, as a nation, have gone from willfully naive to intentionally ignorant, and we are now reaping the harvest of that movement. It's a long, hard road ahead of us if we don't get a clue soon.

More:
http://watchingamerica.com/News/114914/beacon-of-stupidity/

[RKP5637]

1. It might be time for the Statue of Liberty to wear a dunce cap. n/t

[jwirr]

2. More money in the citizen's wallets. We were not smart enough to

ask "who's wallets". Now we know.

[socialindependocrat]

3. Why do my blue collar friends vote Republican?

They are focused on the right of businesses to do as they please to workers who are lazy and deserve what they get. How did these people get so brainwashed?