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There are also guillotines. It never ceases to amaze me that pro gun rights people are generally anti union. Both are extra judicial exercises of power to get a seat at the negotiating table and ultimately prevent tyranny against ones self. Both involve seeking justice through use of force when justice is no where to be found.

> And they don't want consequences against the aristocracy because they have this delusional notion that one day they'll be a part of said aristocracy.

This is over simplified and echo chamber talk. This would not survive a conversation with a skeptic. Those people wouldn't say that they are anti-union because they might eventually be a business owner. They would say that one of the authorities they trust said unions are corrupt and won't work, ignoring the business owners corruption who paid for that authority to sell that story. Conservationism frequently lies with the truth. Only through understanding the bigger picture can you understand that the framing of a given truth creates a lie in the context of a bigger picture.

They have been lied to about cause and effect by entities like fox news and don't have the critical thinking skills to question it. People who believe in trickle down economics don't believe it because they think they will be able to trickle down onto others in the future, they believe it because someone they held in a position of authority told them it's an optimal economic system and they didn't think about it too much or question it.

If you build a culture around following authority and not questioning it too much (like church) then it's easy to hoodwink those people because they are used to trusting [their] authorities without question.




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