| For those who haven’t heard the term Stockholm syndrome, long story short is when folks imitate the very captors who own them, take advantage of them and control them. And that has a lot to do with American politics but in a different form which we shall call the sucked-in-syndrome. Every person of moderate means who cheers the Republican attack on unions, needs to remember virtually all private worker advances came from union advances. They need to realize that a balanced budget achieved without billionaires paying a few extra percent (poor babies) means that services for their own parents and their children are affected, often drastically. One time I heard a very well to do Democratic voter arguing with a person who made a very moderate income (he was a Republican voter) saying something I will never forget “we have a wonderful synergy. Every election I vote your economic interests and you vote mine”. There is the magic of the Republican party, they get people to vote in large against their own economic interest and there is the failure of the Democratic party, they fail to get them to recognize it, thus the Sucked-in-Syndrome. |
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