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No fucking duh it's political, she is an a political post, you are in a political post. Not all politics is bad, some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need
This is the part conservatives cannot do.
If you want to save some money, just remind them that vulnerable groups have also been impacted. They will refuse all help just to make sure the out-groups continue to suffer.
"Government doesn't work! Vote for me and I'll show you just how poorly it can be run!"
The GOP gave up on attempting to even put up a facade of "we're trying to help you" at least a decade ago. At this point, they've convinced their voters that we cannot afford to help everyone, so we only help minorities. And because of that, they would rather we just help nobody.
When the reality is, we could very easily provide for all of the needs of every citizen several times over if people actually paid their fair share in taxes.
But you add in the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mindset that has infected the minds of American workers, and you end up with a bunch of sad, angry, jingoistic people who do everything they can to make sure nobody gets any help for anything.
Well, that is, until they personally need it. Then it's different.
Almost as if there's been a concerted effort for decades to push concepts like "rugged individualism" over collectivism, and "American exceptionalism," while literally sabotaging our own education system so that people remain ignorant enough to continue voting against their interests...
And here is where you lose conservatives, and why, at its core, it is a rotten ideology.
Until it is literally them that needs the help. But then its different. They're different.