You can’t just give everyone a social safety net, then black people and gays would benefit and we can’t be having that in our christian values nation. Its better if we all suffer instead to avoid helping the wrong people.
Helping people is good to conservatives too… so long as you mean one guy helping an old lady cross the street. Once you apply that idea to anything more than one individual’s actions within the confines of the community in which they live then conservatives start opposing the idea. I’ve never heard a logical explanation as to why that is.
They reserve the right of the individual to be an egoistic, uncaring asshole.
After reading your comment again: you meant how they applaud the individual act but can’t explain why they don’t want it to be a applied to the whole community? In that case I agree, no logical explanation.
And the idea of a safety net has been around for a long time, in various forms, yet somehow helping everyone has always been a bad thing to do.
You can’t just give everyone a social safety net, then black people and gays would benefit and we can’t be having that in our christian values nation. Its better if we all suffer instead to avoid helping the wrong people.
This should be carved into America’s tombstone.
Except when you’re at church pretending to listen to what the preacher is saying about the gospels
Helping people is good to conservatives too… so long as you mean one guy helping an old lady cross the street. Once you apply that idea to anything more than one individual’s actions within the confines of the community in which they live then conservatives start opposing the idea. I’ve never heard a logical explanation as to why that is.
I mean, isn’t the explanation pretty simple:
They reserve the right of the individual to be an egoistic, uncaring asshole.
After reading your comment again: you meant how they applaud the individual act but can’t explain why they don’t want it to be a applied to the whole community? In that case I agree, no logical explanation.
Because somehow enough people were convinced anything that wasn’t democracy was communism but also that capitalist fascism is actually democracy