While perusing m feed for LiveSience.com, I cam upone this article:
The rich see what they want It discusses how moral oturage is manipulated into nothingness. such as the non-outrage of the MSM:
People see what they believe, not vice versa, when it comes to social injustice.
And this mind-altering trick of perception keeps moral outrage at bay, especially among the rich, a new psychological study suggests.
By reducing outrage, this mental hoodwink also impedes social change because it inhibits people from taking action, allowing injustices to persist, said lead researcher Cheryl Wakslak of New York University.
Research has shown that people become emotionally distressed when confronted with inequality. The privileged minority is particularly affected, and they are likely to have a nagging worry that their cash and prizes are undeserved.
To keep a clean conscience and legitimize privilege, individuals often alter their perceptions of the status quo.
The upshot of the article? The more money you have, the less you care...
We assume that people care about justice, at least to some degree, and are bothered by potential departures from fairness," the scientists wrote in a report of their work published in the current issue of the journal Psychological Science. "In order to maintain their perceptions of the world as just, however, people do not necessarily strive to make changes that will increase the overall amount of fairness and equality in the system."
While the article focuses on wealth and social inequality, the findings can be extrapolated into what we are witnessing now in politics. A re-ordering of relatiy to fit with what the extreme Right wishes things to be rather than what they are. This makes it easier to blame the other for their own misfortune.