Why is the Republican party so content with denying healthcare as a human right, and trying everything they can to harm people who need any sort of assistance? Like… How do they do it? How much are we talking here when we speak about tax savings for them?

Pretend I am rich? Like how much money am I getting back by Republicans kicking men off healthcare or destroying insurance for those who need it most. It must be alot right?

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’ll take a step back even further, and pontificate my own point of view.

    Modern conservatism, at its core, is the natural set of beliefs that well-adjusted humans have.

    • Family is good, and I should support my family.
    • Having children is good, and we should have more children.
    • Our society is good. We should celebrate our anscestors and carry on our traditions.
    • We should defend our society and traditions from outsiders and those who wish to tear it down.
    • There is a Great Force, which loves us and is on our side.
    • Bad things generally happen to bad people and good things generally happen to good people. So if good things are happening for a person, they are probably good, and if bad things are happening to a person, they are probably bad.
    • When obviously bad things happen to a good person or vice versa, it is because the Great Force has a plan for an even better future which we are ignorant of by virtue of our weakness.
    • Gaining wealth and power is good.
    • Because our leaders are wealthy and powerful, they must be good people.
    • If our leader is obviously not a good person, it is because the Great Force has a plan for them to make the future better for us.
    • Large groups of outsiders are dangerous, and are not to be trusted. If they encroach on our territory or take our resources, we should fight them.
    • If we are controlled by outsiders, this is bad, and we should fight them.
    • Our people are what is important to us. Outsiders should be left to handle their own problems.
    • The roles we have in society give us value. People who fulfill their roles well should be celebrated. People who do not fulfill their roles should be rejected.
    • The things I learned as a child are true.

    With this set of beliefs, a human will fit in to any society and role they end up in; will work to support, grow, and defend that society; and will create as many children as possible. This is a fairly obvious blueprint for the evolutionary fitness of an individual, and the continued existance of a society. And this explains why conservatism is such a universal phenomenon around the world - it is the expression of our natural human instincts.

    It is also why conservatives always seem to have a monopoly on “common sense” - a liberal’s common sense still requires you to think. A conservative’s common sense goes straight to your gut. And it explains why conservatives are so good at working together: liberals must find an intellectual basis of agreement before they work together; conservatives already know they should work together, since they see other conservatives have their same base emotional feelings. Plus they are part of the same in-group.