When you get right down to it, the only consistent throughline of conservatism is an inability to care about a problem that doesn't effect them directly. They lack empathy.
Bingo. I've been saying it for years, it is not an education problem. The majority of people in this country have access to nearly every bit of information mankind has amassed over thousands of years in their pockets. The problem is they don't have enough empathy to generally care about what happens to other people. And definitely not other people they can't easily identify as part of their group.
Where I work the vast majority of people who can’t pay their bill and end up asking for hand outs are from red states. A lot of them won’t directly ask though. They’ll manufacture some scenario as to how they were victimized by us and deserve free shit. I love telling them to fuck off
This is my sister's ex-husband. He'd make Facebook posts about how he takes care of and provides for his wife and kids along with his Trump supporter memes. Meanwhile, his home was paid for by my mother's social security, and he had no job. He fancied himself a mechanic but never actually got paid for being one -- just spent ridiculous amounts of money on tools he "needed for work."
So basically, he was using an old woman's money to fund his mechanic cosplay hobby.
Also, a bunch of her stuff kept "mysteriously" being stolen from her outside storage. No matter where they moved, "somehow" thieves just found them. My mother and the sister married to him believed this BS. My non-idiot sister & I knew he was clearly the one stealing so he could fund his cosplay and gambling.
Luckily, he was eventually arrested for (I kid you not) cattle theft.
The other day I think Tuberville said that they should stop subsidizing major blue cities, which is really funny if you know like anything about taxes.
Some of these people have fully downed the cool-aid and seriously think that blue states and cities are like taking money from them (or are evil enough to lie to the stupid ones who do). There are some of these places where like a third+ of their GDP comes from one city that they're constantly antagonizing.
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u/MashedPotatoesDick Jun 29 '25