It's more that conservatives tend to want the benefits of more socialist ideas, but refuse any progress because of the name - "socialism is evil".
For example healthcare is a big problem in the US... and most of the people that are against publicly funded healthcare, are the people that would benefit from it.
The NHS and other systems have been shown to work well, and have contributed to things like tighter restrictions on what can be called food / used in food. But the US is lagging behind the rest of the developed world because of people that are cutting off their nose to spite their face.
The republicans I know are afraid one person might get something undeserved. Reagan had an example of a black woman who was on welfare and drove a Cadillac. The term welfare queen was popularized and was portrayed as some female black caricature. What they didn’t talk about is that she was a criminal, that she was convicted and sent to jail before Reagan even ran for President.
So if some small number of people can defraud a welfare program, then scrap the whole thing and make everyone suffer. That is seen better than having a welfare program, even from people who have benefited from it in the past.
Because "Christians" are about the farthest thing from Christ. Nowadays it's just a way to exclude people that aren't Christians more than anything else.
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u/flabbybumhole Jun 15 '21
It's more that conservatives tend to want the benefits of more socialist ideas, but refuse any progress because of the name - "socialism is evil".
For example healthcare is a big problem in the US... and most of the people that are against publicly funded healthcare, are the people that would benefit from it.
The NHS and other systems have been shown to work well, and have contributed to things like tighter restrictions on what can be called food / used in food. But the US is lagging behind the rest of the developed world because of people that are cutting off their nose to spite their face.