Just what are the issues that matter most to conservatives?
Men in women’s sports? Deporting all the brown people? Starting multiple wars and assassinating foreign leaders? Taxing Americans with regressive taxes to push away our allies? Destroying NATO? Ballrooms? Arches? That pedophile’s name being smeared onto buildings? His visage on Mt. Rushmore and on coins?
I absolutely can’t stand it, but realistically it’s often just the appearance of “lower taxes”. I know people who DONT PAY TAXES who want lower taxes. They are stupid and I want to scream. It doesn’t matter how many articles or studies or videos you show them, they just associate republicans with lower taxes and that’s what they want. They don’t particularly care about human rights, or outcomes for citizens, just the idea of lower taxes. Capitalism has made class solidarity so hard. These people have no idea who really has aligned interests and are in a constant bubble of misinformation that they refuse to do even the slightest thing to escape from. You can spoon feed them facts and they will spit them out. It’s like trying to feed a baby, but at least one day the baby may grow up and be able to feed itself. These people are incurious rubes who are ruining the world and are often not the ones suffering most from their decisions, though to be clear, they’re often not benefiting either. Also a bunch of Christian nationalists, and fascists, and run of the mill racist, sexist reactionaries.
I know people who DONT PAY TAXES who want lower taxes. They are stupid and I want to scream.
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 or so, at a friend’s house. They lived in a trailer. His dad worked a steady job, but didn’t make much. Like everyone in that area, including my family.
Anyway, we are watching some local politicians debate on PBS, I think. Some young guy, coming off like a sleazy used-car dealer vs. a much older guy who seemed even-keeled (to me).
Friend’s dad starts ranting about how the older guy will…RAISE HIS TAXES. Being a young kid, I’m not going to argue with the rage-o-holic father, but…what, raise his taxes five cents?
Years later, and the quips about “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” rings so true. I was surrounded by them.
And then there is the reactionary centrist (lol, yeah, right - the guy was most definitely Libertarian or Republican) that was playing all innocent and pretending to not even understand how biased it was to use the company email system to send out a tax calculator to the “all” distribution for some referendum to tell you how much it would “cost” you.
Dude really pretended to not understand that taking the time to send that on the company dime while not providing any information about the benefits of the measure was only half the story. He kept bleating about how “you can read the measure for that”. If the guy was truly that thick about how uneven his “neutral” email was, I cannot even. But I think he knew what he was doing. He would bat his eyes at anyone that brought it up and act all hurt about how HR had to talk to him about it.
Just what are the issues that matter most to conservatives?
Men in women’s sports? Deporting all the brown people? Starting multiple wars and assassinating foreign leaders? Taxing Americans with regressive taxes to push away our allies? Destroying NATO? Ballrooms? Arches? That pedophile’s name being smeared onto buildings? His visage on Mt. Rushmore and on coins?
The conservatives are entirely unserious people.
They are miserable and everyone else must be miserable. For Jesus’s sake. 🙃
I absolutely can’t stand it, but realistically it’s often just the appearance of “lower taxes”. I know people who DONT PAY TAXES who want lower taxes. They are stupid and I want to scream. It doesn’t matter how many articles or studies or videos you show them, they just associate republicans with lower taxes and that’s what they want. They don’t particularly care about human rights, or outcomes for citizens, just the idea of lower taxes. Capitalism has made class solidarity so hard. These people have no idea who really has aligned interests and are in a constant bubble of misinformation that they refuse to do even the slightest thing to escape from. You can spoon feed them facts and they will spit them out. It’s like trying to feed a baby, but at least one day the baby may grow up and be able to feed itself. These people are incurious rubes who are ruining the world and are often not the ones suffering most from their decisions, though to be clear, they’re often not benefiting either. Also a bunch of Christian nationalists, and fascists, and run of the mill racist, sexist reactionaries.
I remember when I was about 9 or 10 or so, at a friend’s house. They lived in a trailer. His dad worked a steady job, but didn’t make much. Like everyone in that area, including my family.
Anyway, we are watching some local politicians debate on PBS, I think. Some young guy, coming off like a sleazy used-car dealer vs. a much older guy who seemed even-keeled (to me).
Friend’s dad starts ranting about how the older guy will…RAISE HIS TAXES. Being a young kid, I’m not going to argue with the rage-o-holic father, but…what, raise his taxes five cents?
Years later, and the quips about “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” rings so true. I was surrounded by them.
And then there is the reactionary centrist (lol, yeah, right - the guy was most definitely Libertarian or Republican) that was playing all innocent and pretending to not even understand how biased it was to use the company email system to send out a tax calculator to the “all” distribution for some referendum to tell you how much it would “cost” you.
Dude really pretended to not understand that taking the time to send that on the company dime while not providing any information about the benefits of the measure was only half the story. He kept bleating about how “you can read the measure for that”. If the guy was truly that thick about how uneven his “neutral” email was, I cannot even. But I think he knew what he was doing. He would bat his eyes at anyone that brought it up and act all hurt about how HR had to talk to him about it.
Golden sneakers, fake crypto coins, and buccee gas station food. Lol