- 04 Jan 2015 21:11
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Another way of dividing up the population is the poor, less than half mean income, the rich those on more than double mean income and the middling sort, the rest. When done that way, I expect one will understand why the rich and the middling have the numbers to defend the staus Quo, particularly when you take account of the low level of voting and political and social activism by the poor. The middling those between half and double mean income really don't have sufficient to potentially gain from major destabilising change to the status Quo that could potentially leave them much worse off.
Revolutionaries don't make revolutions by gaining majority support. Small but highly motivated minorities can carry out a revolution when society has been demoralised and few people are willing to make sacrifices to actively defend the status quo.
Lexington wrote:The median household income worldwide is $10,000. Only 7 percent of US households are poorer than that.To be fair I think the figure has to be compared with the world mean income, not the world median income.
Another way of dividing up the population is the poor, less than half mean income, the rich those on more than double mean income and the middling sort, the rest. When done that way, I expect one will understand why the rich and the middling have the numbers to defend the staus Quo, particularly when you take account of the low level of voting and political and social activism by the poor. The middling those between half and double mean income really don't have sufficient to potentially gain from major destabilising change to the status Quo that could potentially leave them much worse off.
Revolutionaries don't make revolutions by gaining majority support. Small but highly motivated minorities can carry out a revolution when society has been demoralised and few people are willing to make sacrifices to actively defend the status quo.
Progressives lie scattered on Woke's highway, Diverse ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.