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Are we being fooled on a mass scale?

Simon | 10.06.2012 19:10 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Birmingham | World

Working-class Tory voters go against their own self-interest. But it's not just working-class people. The rich and powerful put a lot of effort into fooling the majority. It has worked in the past and is still working today.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-class-people-vote-conservative

The Guardian asks why working-class people vote Tory.

People are duped.

It may be that a large proportion of working-class people have values that the Left do not express. But it is also the case, that the Tory working-class voter believes that their party will improve the economic conditions of people in general. Therefore, there is some duping going on.

Why did a majority of people go along with the Coalition’s ridiculous idea that cutting government expenditure would lead to economic growth? If you asked people what part of the economy was going to provide the nation with growth, what would they have said? The truth is not a secret. We have experienced this in the past before. That is, people could have done some homework to find out that the Coalition’s policies were questionable.

Why did people go along with the economic commentators after the 2008 financial crash that this was a short-term problem? After their policies were proved wrong, the public still went along with them?

In fact, if you told people in the UK in 2006 that the West was facing a major economic contraction, it is literally the case that they would have said that you were mad.

Is this a matter of economic knowledge? That people allow their thinking to be done for them by economic experts? Because if this was the case, when these experts were proved wrong, they would start doubting them. It is only four years after the economic medicine has not worked that people start asking whether the experts have not got it right. Note, these are the same experts that didn’t predict the crisis in the first place.

I don’t think this is a matter of economic knowledge. Because why would people who believe they have no economic knowledge think they know more than those people who voiced warnings of the crisis? They didn’t ask them what evidence they had? They wouldn’t listen to what these people had to say. What they did was mock and laugh at them.

It is not that people are stupid. Or is it that people are too frightened to question the concensus?

Simon

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Are we being fooled on a mass scale?

11.06.2012 06:43

No.

Simple Simon

tweedle lab and tweedle con

11.06.2012 07:37

In 2006 I did, and yep they look at me as if I was mad. I kept on shouting we are going to have a mortgage crash not a property crash and it was being stage managed, Maybe they were right. I don't have a mortgage and precious little else. The parties implement policy provided by the IMF to institute a global economy, it has nothing or little to do with what the electorate want. Dept has proved an unsustainable motor for the global monetary system, absolute control of land and resources are being substituted as a new mechanism (voodoo economics) which means globally control of these is being rested from the populous. Coupled with this we have wall to wall propaganda, lifestyle and reality TV manipulate people very, very efficiently.

not a party animal

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