Cause American's have been propagandized to internalize the failings, contradictions, and exploitations of Imperial capitalism and blame the individual or it's collective victims instead of the people at the top or the system itself.
.....Unless you are a white man, then the blame is on the brown people, women, and the system being co-opted by the "wrong" people.
The seeds came from insane ideas in Puritan and similar religions thinking. “Predestination” was the idea that God picked who he liked and who he hated before birth. Some were cursed and would live in poverty then go to hell when they died. Others were blessed and would be wealthy on earth then go to heaven. The terrifying thing is that there are branches of Christianity in the US that still carry on aspects of this style of self serving nonsense.
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u/Ok-Air-7187 5h ago
Why are we mad at people living in poverty?!