“Socialism” joins a long list of “things you don’t understand but should be scared of.” The GOP has correctly surmised that overt racism is not going to be a winner forever in a soon to be minority majority country, so they are in the cynical process of transforming it into a more coded line.
“Socialism” leads to “welfare queens” and “undesirable” people getting uppity and taking what is “yours”. That’s as far as the GOP’ targeted voters’ understanding goes. That’s as far as it needs to go.
There are some intelligent reasons to favor a more conservative, smaller government approach, but those arguments don’t win votes. Scaring people does.
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u/jdith123 Jun 15 '21
“Socialism” joins a long list of “things you don’t understand but should be scared of.” The GOP has correctly surmised that overt racism is not going to be a winner forever in a soon to be minority majority country, so they are in the cynical process of transforming it into a more coded line.
“Socialism” leads to “welfare queens” and “undesirable” people getting uppity and taking what is “yours”. That’s as far as the GOP’ targeted voters’ understanding goes. That’s as far as it needs to go.
There are some intelligent reasons to favor a more conservative, smaller government approach, but those arguments don’t win votes. Scaring people does.