So many of us wonder how it is that Republican middle/poor class voters can continue to support the Republican party when the policies of the Republican party harm them overall? It is a dilemma when trying to debate with them about why they are into self inflicting harm upon themselves. They don't ever seem to be able to accept that they are actually being harmed. Whether it is diversion of interests prioritized to make the point of their being harmed irrelevant or that they don't see themselves as included in the class that is affected by Republican harmful policies. What I think is that many of them cannot make the connection between what Republican politicians and their talking heads are saying and what the reality will be if they are elected. They have been inculcated to accept that Democrats are only for the lazy worthless in our society and they are not lazy and worthless. They have also let sink in that they are better as a race and gender than the minorities and women currently fighting for equality. What these Republican voters fail to understand is that their own choice to be biased is how they are hooked. First, the social contract has come into being because capitalism, by it's nature, is a zero sum game, for every winner there is at least one or more losers. Those losers are not lazy and worthless, they just didn't achieve their goals and thus are left with no promise of success. Many times the system is rigged to favor the elite in our society either through nepotism or shady trade-offs. Regardless of privilege and it's place in undermining merit, the ideal that those who fail are lazy and worthless is wrong-headed. Without our social safety net the result would be a society that doesn't care for it's citizens in a civilized and modern way, which would then make our society much closer to savagery, than to enlightened.
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