People endure settled oppression rather than abolish familiar government for minor causes.

Evidence

The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not “marginals,” are not people living “outside” society. They have always been “inside”—inside the structure which made them “beings for others.” The solution is not to “integrate” them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become “beings for themselves.” Such transformation, of course, would undermine the oppressors’ purposes; hence their utilization of the banking concept of education to avoid the threat of student conscientização. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 212 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. — Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 7 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

System-justification refers to the psychological process whereby an individual perceives, understands, and explains an existing situation or arrangement with the result that the situation or arrangement is maintained. Unlike ego-justification or groupjustification views that postulate a psychologically adaptive mechanism (protection of the ego or the extended collective ego), system-justification does not offer an equivalent function that operates in the service of protecting the interests of the self or the group. In fact, system-justification refers to the psychological process by which existing social arrangements are preserved in spite of the obvious psychological and material harm they entail for disadvantaged individuals and groups. It is this emphasis on the production of false consciousness that contrasts the system-justification view most sharply with previous views. We submit that an explanation of this scope may be required to explain, among other things, negative in-group stereotyping among disadvantaged groups and the societal or cross-societal consensuality of some stereotypes. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political agency’s absence, not its demands, oppresses people; participation is euphoric. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2005; People endure sufferable evils rather than abolish familiar forms of government. — Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 7; The oppressed are inside the oppressive structure, not marginal to it. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 212 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• People endure sufferable evils rather than abolish familiar forms of government. #corroborates (1.00) — Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 7
• The oppressed are inside the oppressive structure, not marginal to it. #complicates (1.00) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 212
• People rationalize oppressive arrangements that harm them rather than protect their own interests #expands (1.00) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911
• Victims of oppression actively cope and adapt rather than only suffer damage #complicates (1.00)