No idea how anyone, even right wing, would be angered by free bus fare, affordable housing, rent freezes, or even the grocery stores. Obviously his face and the word “democrat” are attached to it so he will automatically be demonized but still.
: “It’s not about the material conditions! It’s the PRINCIPLE! Providing those is STEALING, and there’s no HONOR and GLORY in unearned goods!” <- receives billions in subsidies so maybe one day he’ll start making jobs again
They are mad because they believe these policies will disproportionately benefit people they consider subhuman. Implementing them would break the social contract of “we can’t make your life better but we’ll make sure the people you hate have it worse”.
Touché. It’s just so difficult for me to get inside the mind of a conservative, even if I’m trying to thinking individualistically. To have feelings of hate greater than feelings of preservation of your own self interest is just wild to me
Because reactionaries think if someone is getting something “for free,” that was something they could have gotten to keep for themselves. They don’t want free bus fare because they think they could have kept part of their taxes to spend on F150s. They don’t want affordable housing because it means minorities and poor people moving into their city. They think state-owned businesses are less efficient than the private sector.
All of these beliefs are wrong, of course. They are unable to see how benefits for the rest of society improves their owns lives because they’re terminally individualistic.
Yeah makes sense. I suppose if those things were reserved for them and not the people they despise, they migjt song a different tune. At least to some. Idk even thinking of it from a more selfish position it’s so hard for me to think about that facet of their beliefs. It’s less about improving their own conditions but making sure everyone else’s are worse. Ugh
No idea how anyone, even right wing, would be angered by free bus fare, affordable housing, rent freezes, or even the grocery stores. Obviously his face and the word “democrat” are attached to it so he will automatically be demonized but still.
They are mad because they believe these policies will disproportionately benefit people they consider subhuman. Implementing them would break the social contract of “we can’t make your life better but we’ll make sure the people you hate have it worse”.
Similar to how these same rightwing chodes fearmonger over
becoming a ‘minority’ in the US (or at least, not a plurality).
They fear that minorities will do to them what they did (and wanted to do) to minorities
Touché. It’s just so difficult for me to get inside the mind of a conservative, even if I’m trying to thinking individualistically. To have feelings of hate greater than feelings of preservation of your own self interest is just wild to me
Because reactionaries think if someone is getting something “for free,” that was something they could have gotten to keep for themselves. They don’t want free bus fare because they think they could have kept part of their taxes to spend on F150s. They don’t want affordable housing because it means minorities and poor people moving into their city. They think state-owned businesses are less efficient than the private sector.
All of these beliefs are wrong, of course. They are unable to see how benefits for the rest of society improves their owns lives because they’re terminally individualistic.
Yeah makes sense. I suppose if those things were reserved for them and not the people they despise, they migjt song a different tune. At least to some. Idk even thinking of it from a more selfish position it’s so hard for me to think about that facet of their beliefs. It’s less about improving their own conditions but making sure everyone else’s are worse. Ugh