WakeandBake
Well-known member
Being this wrong this often is progressivism in a nutshell. I get the point of this space for you guys, and it's not about thinking things through. You need your priors confirmed and to polish each other's armor of false virtue, but watching you all completely miss the point of conservatism on a daily basis is stunning, no matter how many times I've seen it.
As a conservative, I want other people to do well. I want that because it helps them, society as a whole and if was acting only out of self interest, it actually serves me and my interests better than any other outcome. I want to reduce government dependency because I want people to succeed. Nothing about other people struggling advances a goal of mine in any way, shape or form. The opposite, actually. I view government dependency as a bad thing, unworthy of my own choices, I won't force it on others. I don't want it for me, and I shouldn't want it for them either.
I believe you 100% when you say you want people to succeed. No doubt about it.
Unfortunately, you subscribe to horribly and demonstrably failed methodologies to achieve it. And you apply the term "government dependency" selectively - saved for the poor and working class and disabled - willfully ignoring the MIC and swaths of private corporations that are on the dole and lining the pockets of a small number of American titans who pay shit wages and rely on gov assistance programs to close the financial gaps for their employees.
I believe you want people to succeed, but you lie to yourself about a lot of shit to get you to "its the government's fault they are poor "