Current Events > Republicans like universal Health care, when they get it.

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Voidgolem posted...

The mindset of "government doesn't work so we need less of it!" requires ignoring decades of dismantling administrative power in the name of profit that the layperson will never, ever benefit from.

It also ignores the fact that the shit sacks who say that are precisely the ones who are breaking the government, so they can point to it and go "See, we told you it's broke.... now keep electing me as a government official to keep breaking it!"

gmo7897 posted...

I bust my ass to ensure I maintain health insurance

And you shouldn't have to, you should consider your healthcare a human right because it is.

Voidgolem posted...

The mindset of "government doesn't work so we need less of it!" requires ignoring decades of dismantling administrative power in the name of profit that the layperson will never, ever benefit from.

Like, a lot of the American dream came about from policies that, in the modern day, would not have passed because the modern conservative would screech about overreach or spending or socialism or whatever. It's baffling.

Very true. The idea that if the market is just left alone it will result in some kind of broad based prosperity is ahistoric. On a long enough time scale you get exactly what we've been seeing in the U.S. where wealth and power get gradually concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.

The other half of it: "I'm underpaid with terrible benefits so everyone should be underpaid with terrible benefits" is equally baffling

But then you get into the "if we pay everyone more the cost of living goes up because they will never, ever think about not paying the execs 400x their ground level pay for actively trying to tank the business"

And it's like

Yes

That's why you regulate

That's literally the purpose of having the kind of non-corporate oversight stupid assholes keep complaining about

"But one day when I am a gigarich elite with more money than 15 generations can ever use-" YOU WILL NEVER BE ONE. THAT IS NOT HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS AND IT HAS NOT WORKED THAT WAY FOR DECADES

But that's a different subject.