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Meanwhile my 80 year-old dad was driving for DoorDash to survive, borrowing my car, until he started dying in February.
My mom still does.
I don't know how anyone in the poor and working class is still capitalist, but this fucking bullshit is why the socialists are about to tea party the Democrats in November.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - John Steinbeck
No.
It never took root because they killed them (Huey Long) and imprisoned them (Eugene Debs). The ones they couldn't kill or imprison were intimidated into silence. (Red Scare, among others.)
Multiple things can be true at once.
Must be some variant of Stockholm syndrome
"fun" fact, Stockholm syndrome doesn't exist. it comes from the fact that some of the hostages in a particular situation felt that the police constantly attempting to escalate were a greater threat to their safety than the people who took them hostage, and wanted them to just negotiate instead of repeatedly trying and failing to do swat-style raids of the building. this perfectly reasonable reaction couldn't be allowed to be presented in the media, so they made up a fake psychological condition to explain it
I've never heard that before. Do you have source/s so we can learn more about this?
Edit. Autocorrect
I don't have a good source myself, I heard it secondhand from someone who was citing an interview with one of the hostages, but I wouldn't know where to find it
Not sure who downvoted you, but at least votes mean nothing on Lemmy.
Anyway. I think I found something on the topic, if you're interested
I think it's more akin to indoctrination. "You, too, can be independently wealthy if you work hard enough. Just look at these very ~~ab~~normal billionaires!"