The reason is simple. Like most people, progressives believe the ruling class's #1 Big Lie. The Big Lie is this:
"Hardly anybody wants to abolish class inequality, and if you say you do you will lose support from the general public, so if you want to win support for your favorite band-aid reform, you better just keep quiet about your egalitarian revolutionary aspirations."
This is why the rank-and-file members of progressive organizations, despite personally wanting very much to abolish class inequality, never demand that their progressive organization's leadership advocate it. They actually think it is best NOT to call for abolishing class inequality, because they believe the ruling class's Big Lie.
Why do so many people belive this Big Lie? Again, the answer is simple. People form their opinion about what hundreds of millions of strangers--the general public--think and want from how ordinary people are portrayed in the mass and alternative media. The ruling class controls both the mass and alternative media and makes sure that ordinary people are NEVER potrayed in this media as having an egalitarian revolutionary aspiration, even though the vast majority do have such an aspiration.
Thus, when the author and several others separately used the Democracy Now! website's "suggestion" box to suggest that it interview random people across the nation about how they felt about removing the rich from power to have real--not fake--democracy with no rich and no poor (and we included a link to the video mentioned above showing how we did this), Democracy Now! did not even reply. We pointed out that Democracy Now!'s listeners would be very interested in hearing how people responded to this question, but Democracy Now! clearly did not care.
Why, you may ask, doesn't somebody just hire a polling company to find out what the general public thinks about abolishing class inequality. Here's why not. The author contacted the Gallup Poll company division of Gallup, Inc. recently to pay for a national poll of all United States residents (not just registered voters) asking people's opinion about removing the rich from power to have real--not fake--democracy with no rich and no poor. I spoke to Gallup representatives on two occasions by telephone. They were very friendly, said they could do what I wanted, and seemed pleased to take my money. But as soon as they heard what the exact questions were that I wanted in the poll, they said they would not do it. Other polling companies informed me they could only poll registered voters or people online, which is not suitable in this context.
Like virtually all progressive organizations large enough to have a paid staff, Democracy Now! gets money from Big Money and its leaders know that it would lose funding if it called for abolishing class inequality. For the rank-and-file of a progressive organization to make their organization advocate abolishing class inequality would require a struggle. But they don't even attempt it because they believe the Big Lie.
Dear reader, do you too believe the Big Lie? Would you like to do an experiment to see for yourself if it is true or not? It's easy. Go here to see how. And if, dear reader, you fear that abolishing class inequality would mean making things worse, like Communism, then please go here and here and here to read about how egalitarianism is totally different from Communism and is FAR better.
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