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To ghouls, losing the power and privilege by getting fired/blacklisted probably feels pretty close to an execution. Of course I don't think many of these ghouls have any opinions inside them based enough to get actually executed...for now.
True. But I meant that it feels like an execution. If I were middle-class and could, y'know, relax and enjoy life when I'm not working, I'd probably feel the darkest despair losing a position like that and effectively being blacklisted in the only career field I have experience in. I've always been poor, and am still struggling, still feeling the axe against the neck so to speak. I could only imagine how it must feel to think you're safe and prosperous, only to be thrust down to my position or worse (at least I have a job, and a promising career if I put my mind to it). If you're invested in paying off a house or car, in raising a family or sending a child to a nice school, and suddenly you lose the means to do so, well that just makes it worse.
It's just interesting to see that (on some level) even libs, who think we're so much better and kinder than other countries, recognize they could lose their cushy positions and descend to the level the majority of Americans are at. The fact that they know this implies they're aware of how fucked up it all is, but still they think what they fantasize about other countries doing is worse.