Worse than that, it’s the mindset of the short-sighted. These fucking morons wouldn’t acknowledge the concept of government spending with a positive ROI even if you waterboarded them with Tang.
They’d rather create a shithole country where they have to cower inside gated communities to protect themselves from the impoverished masses instead of one where everybody is educated and prosperous, even though they themselves would be wealthier in the second case, just because they think everything is a zero-sum game and they can’t win unless everybody else loses.
It’s just myopic emotions. “Does this feel good for me right now?” If it’s actually good, if it’s good long term, if it contradicts a past stance - none of that matters.
The worst part of their mentality is that their wealth is based on taking advantage of others around them. They and their wealth wouldn’t exist if not for the work and effort or coercion or abuse of others around them. They believe that they deserve their wealth because it came to them through their own personal effort alone. It’s bad enough that they took advantage of others … it’s far worse to never acknowledge your role in having taken advantage of others.
Conservitism is the mindset of the selfish
Worse than that, it’s the mindset of the short-sighted. These fucking morons wouldn’t acknowledge the concept of government spending with a positive ROI even if you waterboarded them with Tang.
They’d rather create a shithole country where they have to cower inside gated communities to protect themselves from the impoverished masses instead of one where everybody is educated and prosperous, even though they themselves would be wealthier in the second case, just because they think everything is a zero-sum game and they can’t win unless everybody else loses.
It’s just myopic emotions. “Does this feel good for me right now?” If it’s actually good, if it’s good long term, if it contradicts a past stance - none of that matters.
The worst part of their mentality is that their wealth is based on taking advantage of others around them. They and their wealth wouldn’t exist if not for the work and effort or coercion or abuse of others around them. They believe that they deserve their wealth because it came to them through their own personal effort alone. It’s bad enough that they took advantage of others … it’s far worse to never acknowledge your role in having taken advantage of others.
It’s the failure of ‘me vs us’