How the hell could the American capitalists be so successful in oppressing the working class?

I am just started reading on the history of the American labour struggle, so someone please enlightened me how the hell could the American capitalists be so successful in oppressing the working class? Looking at other Western European countries, as bad as they are and even worse they will be, still have one or two good points in term of labour rights, social welfare, public services, etc. I only see misery looking at the American system. How comes it turned out this way? Is it the American dream an extremely potent brainwashing drug? Is it the CIA, while being incompetence at fighting abroad, is really good at killing labour figures like Fred Hampton? Or, is it that several generations were shielded from the negative consequences of their actions, be it cracking down on the unions to opening the way to neoliberalism, because of the ill-gotten wealth their much more smarter ancestors had accrued?The American people must have had become lethargic. How come haven’t they refuse all of these misery? How the hell could the “Who is going to pay for it” rhetoric work so well? (You can’t just imagine how many times I heard the line “Norway could do it because they have the oil.” America is a fucking oil field, and you still can’t do it!) Even knowing how vicious and cruel capitalism is, I still couldn’t believe how good it have done at taking away empathy and compassion of an entire society. via /r/communism https://ift.tt/2uHxs7i