Reply #46: To have the poor vote in large numbers would not be in the best interests [View All]

of either branch of the corporate party.

Voters in the US are the top 25% income tier. If the bottom 75% were genuinely franchised, the result would be no less than a revolution.

The bottom 75 would not be content with putting a Democrat face on the same policies, and announcing them in prettier words.

The average apartment now costs almost 4 times the minimum wage, according to the government's own figures.

The gap between rich and poor is widening rapidly.

A revolution of this type would not be increase revenues for corporations, whose PACs fund the politicians.

Although it is unlikely that the inevitable alternative will increase revenues either, the strategy has been to hope that the inevitable is postponed until the next generation.

Recent events have decreased that likelihood, but it is still embraced with lively optimism by both voting class and corporate oligarchy alike.