ratbastid

A cagey answer to a cagey question. Fair enough, I'll come straight out with my point.

The "haves" who have originated this philosophy you espouse are "haves" at a level you and I will literally never aspire to, nor will our children or our grandchildren. Their level of affluence so far exceeds that of us mere mortals it's hard for us to even comprehend, and for the most part it's a multi-generational legacy of super wealth that the current holders did nothing to earn beyond being the lucky sperm that became the heir. Their interests are profoundly entrenched in maintaining the status quo--it's gotten them where they are, and they have the resources, you better damn well believe, to keep things that way. And they have access to the very minds of America through their ownership of the media.

So they make middle-class-folk feel like they're the ones the government is going to take money from, that they have to fight any sort of tax hike for the rich. They make you feel the persecution that they themselves feel, so you sing out at any risk to their standing.

In my opinion, middle-class conservatives are complete patsies. Just my opinion, you're free to feel differently. I'd like, before you reflexively come back at me, though, for you to think for just a second about where you get those conservative thoughts from. You have to get your notion of the virtue of hard work from somewhere, for instance. Your sense of the cause-and-effect nature of labor and reward. I know that probably seems self-evident, but they could just as easily be memes instilled in you from sources beyond your immediate grasp.