I feel like just knowing that, will explain a lot about America and her way of life.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I had an accounting professor back in college whose net worth I would estimate above 3 million. Really smart person but he was about as reactionary as it gets.

    Your accounting professor is massively profiting from the current state of affairs, so them being a reactionary is entirely unsurprising.

    Illiteracy isn't the only source of reactionism, but it makes it easier to propagandize people against their own self interests. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that most functionally illiterate people aren't rich.

    • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      agree with everything you said, but the point im trying to make is if labor unions and other radical organizations had some presence in people's lives, the functionally illeterate would be just as likely to be propagandized by the left as the right.

      the taft hartley bill alone is a better explanation of why we're where we're at. bourgious society has had complete control over public discourse for the past 50 years.