07-06-2017, 01:13 PM
(07-06-2017, 12:53 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(07-06-2017, 11:43 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Lots of people have been miserable in history. But there's no inherent reason why they should support their bosses who create their misery (like Trump, and Republicans who represent the oligarchy) in response, instead of those politicians who oppose the bosses. Les miserables are themselves responsible to make a choice that will answer their needs, as opposed to their prejudices. If they don't, then they alone are mainly responsible for their own misery.
They may have an alternative to showing loyalty to brutal, exploitative bosses -- especially if those bosses have the poser to torture or kill them. But to challenge those bosses they risk being killed, murdered, or both (as with so grisly means of execution as crucifixion, burning at the stake, breaking on the wheel, being crushed by elephant, or being fed alive to half-starved dogs) and perhaps getting loved ones similarly treated. Consider how brutally the Spanish put down the indigenous rebellion in Peru in 1781. See also Nero, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Francois Duvalier, Saddam Hussein, and ISIS. See also the norms of the feudal agrarian order of medieval Europe.
I was just referring to how people vote, as per my original comment. My point being that the misery belt is so because of how people there have voted in the past few decades.