Why do wingers need a stratified economy?

[Doctor_J]

What is their inherent aversion to a more egalitarian economy? Why do they insist on creating and maintaining an underclass, and funneling the country's money into fewer and fewer hands? What do they gain by this?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. There isn't enough wealth to spread around.

If everybody was rich, nobody would be rich.

[Vincardog]

3. It is not enough for them to be Rich. We have to be poor. The Middle Class

is their only threat. Poor people do not oppose FASCIST policies the educated Middle Class does, That is why they want to eliminate us.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Actually, there is enough on the earth

to feed all and give everyone adequate housing. The problem is in distribution, and the quaint notion that so many have that they deserve a lot more than others.

[cap]

2. power...

even more money for those on top.

For those near the bottom, a sense that they are always better than someone else -- another race, gender orientation.

For men, a chance to own their woman... to have complete domination over someone else. They may be shit on six ways to Sunday but they always have their own female to abuse.

[Redstone]

5. The funny thing is that so many of them are IN the underclass.

There are TONS of dirt-poor rightwingers out there.

I guess they're too stupid to see how their "fellow" Republicans are hosing them.

Redstone

[orwell]

6. The Most Important Thing...

...to any capitalist is cheap labor. Labor represents over 60% of the cost of doing business. If you can control that input, you maximize profit. Class stratification is an essential element in cheap labor costs. Hence, class structure is critical to high profits.

[MissMarple]

7. It's the way they think...rigid, structured, no spontaneity, ...

everything lining up...just so. Egalitarian, working with people,thinking on their feet, that is way too scary. They can't deal with uncertainty, with the messy business of working with real people with real problems, with reality itself. I think that is why the religious ones egregiously cherry pick the bible in an attempt to back up their distorted world view.

They need keepers, minders to keep themselves from harming themselves and others. Sadly, that is not the case. We are left to pick up the pieces, to try to put things back in order. That is getting much harder. They may have taken us, quite purposely, over the edge.