Liz points us to an important reminder that it’s not about being stupid, it’s about being overworked, underpaid, harrassed by a hostile government, and lied to by a sycophantic media owned by neofeudal multinationals:

Waking up, are we?
New Zogby Poll

75% said they trust government less than they did five years ago
5% said they think corporations do right by the consumers they are in business to serve

25% feel the reporting is fair and accurate in the newspapers or television.
60% said they believe the “state of honesty in America” today is in poor shape
(18% said it is in the worst possible shape).

3% said they think Congress in general is trustworthy
24% said President Bush is trustworthy
29% said they can put their faith in the national court system
7% said corporate leaders in America are trustworthy.
Posted by BlondeSense Liz | 10:06 AM |

The bold is mine, and what I think is the lever. People hate the way phones are more complicated and expensive today than ever before, Wal-Mart junk falls apart and puts Ma and Pa’s biz out of biz, and how GE gets to dump toxic chemicals into their drinking water and give their kids cancer. Even poor, uneducated, fundie people. The party that takes advantage of that is the party that will rule forever.