This is how John Stuart Mill put it :- “The relation between rich and poor, according to this theory (a theory also applied to the relation between men and women) should be only partly authoritative; it should be amiable, moral, and sentimental: affectionate tutelage on the one side, respectful and grateful deference on the other. The rich should be in loco parentis to the poor, guiding and restraining them like children.”
Replace "rich" with "government" and you've got the perfect behind-closed-doors rationale for Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and the other structural beams of the middle-class welfare state.
Government ≠ welfare state.
Health care/social security/state education is paid for by the people for the people - in the UK at least. Govt., on the other hand, is paid for by the rich for the rich.
And whilst I know what you're driving at, no, I don't think you can replace "rich' with "government" in the above quote. My post, and the quote from JS Mill, is trying to explain how those that have fuck all can vote for someone who has everything. In the UK we called them the "working class Tory". Lots of people wracked their brains trying to undrstand the phenomena, what with it being completely counter intuitive. Yes, you could point to the ownership of the mass media, you could point to voter "aspiration". But one explanation was "deference".
What's your objection to the so-called working-class Tories - that they don't vote as they ought? Well if so, the "working class Tory" might vote that way out of defiance!
You're getting anally compromised by Mr Big - but hey, its his right to pitch it and, damn it, its your right to catch it and hold his umbrella if thats what you wish. Its your democratic right LOL.
Don't kid yourself.
Sorry if that sounds harsh but I've been watching too many Dan Pena motivational videos on youtube this evening - a man after Trumps heart. Thanks to Wilicons inexorable conservative US centric shilling for that one.
My objection to the working class tory is much the same objection that I might have to the man trying to put out his house fire by throwing petrol on it.
I presume you subscribe to some sort of "rational voting" theory.
Rational voting would be nice, yes. Individuals making informed choices.
...in America..... Lots of folks have jumped on the Trump train in part to show scorn for authorities they do not respect.
Trump
is the authority - and you are the Uncle Tom.
You've been had.
