How come in the U.S elitists favor socialism and lower classes generally believe in a free market system?

[Caspare B]

Are Streisand, Gore, Clooney et al, really "down for the struggle"?

[Luckydrug098]

On times of crisis this happens at the beginnings.Only at the beginnings.

[Ruth]

The liberal elite is all about power--how to get it and keep it, over the masses.

Don't be stupid.

[beyond_politics]

You are wrong the vast majority of the elite (especially where Wall Street is concerned) are the worst or best of what raw capital ambition does to a country. These people by and large are Conservatives, neo-con financiers.

Capitalism could not survive if people stopped buying the goods and services they are told are needed. So, the buying and selling of everything must continue. Everything within the capitalist system must provoke, cajole, otherwise, manipulate and compel spending. People become consumers instead of citizens, and shopping becomes a civic and patriotic duty. After the 911 tragedy, George W. Bush said, "If some economists and business leaders are to be believed, the terrorists will have won if Americans don’t go shopping." New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani said, "Show your confidence...Show you're not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping."

The consumer operates as if all is well, that things are normal even if numerous credit cards have been maxed out spurring the opening of yet another new account. The shopping and the buying continue even though there may be no reasonable possibility of paying off the credit cards' debt. The consumer is of course "free" in the land of the free to continue shopping and buying or not. Our internal programming maintains the illusion that all is well. In reality, the consumer is not so free to halt the money-commodity-money exchange no more than is a computer program able to alter its instruction set, that is, until it crashes. With the consumer crash comes the inevitable system crash.

In the United States, shopping is an addiction which benefits the seller giving short-lived satisfaction to the buyer. The consumer, like the drug addict ultimately responsible for their condition, requires a fix to satisfy their urges.

[oil_corp_puppet]

The rich used to believe in the free market system until they got so greedy that they skipped right over it and are now stealing directly from the national treasury via "panic the public" scams.

This is class warfare and just like the reds overthrowing the Czarists in Russia we in America will overthrow the elitists because....there simply are more of us then there are of them.

No matter how many mercenaries Bush hires to kill us via Blackwater South America.

[Robin]

my personal interpretation is that the elitists expect to make a good living of of their management of the lives of us peons

they might believe that they are much smarter than the rest of the world, and it is their moral duty to run other people's lives and future into the ground

either that or they are so far removed from the picture that they don't have a clue

[lemontreegr]

Its funny to think about i wonder if they so believe in the redistribution of wealth than what is stopping them from giving most of their money to the poor and volunteering to live only on what they need to survive


EDIT **********And that goes to all you leftist online now give up 80% of your money to the poor if that's what you believe in Put your money where your mouth is!

[Martin G]

I think alot of the people you mentioned are so disconnected from the way the economy and the world really works that they believe in the naive ideals of socialism. They don't see the best economic and social system is what got them to where they are, a system that rewards talent and hard work... capitalism. Where is the incentive to achieve and produce in a socialist society? There is none just do the minimum to get your government cheese and let your brain rot and your life waste away.