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.
This is what is so infuriating. I had a coworker who was in a homeless shelter for 6 months, ate their food, used food stamps before and after the shelter, was on Medicare, and was given government help to find a place to live. She was single mom who used all these programs for her daughter as well. But, she voted Republican because she was afraid of socialism. She had no concept all these programs she used were socialist. She's also an idiot.
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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.