Reply #56: economic vs. social liberal

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from your last paragraph, your fff (former friend forever) is liberal on social issues. She is anti-Christian, pro-fornication, and pro-GLBT. Howver, she is not a liberal on economic issues. That's not really an unusual combination, and sometimes it is consistent, consistent in that the focus is mostly about me, me, me. That is, the person is a 'liberal' not to help others, but to help themselves. Don't push your Christian religion on ME. Don't put your sexual morality on ME. Don't tell ME I cannot have an abortion.

Support for those issues provides benefits for ME and costs ME nothing. Economic issues, OTOH, can be costly, especially for people above the median income. It can mean higher taxes on ME :wtf: and no benefit for ME, instead the benefits goto people on headstart, collecting food stamps, getting LIHEAP, and also subsidized insurance. There's nothing in it for ME, except increased costs. (unless you are one of my siblings and then you could at least feel that your no-account brother is getting some benefit out of it).

At that point, some people lose interest. It's not that they are necessarily against programs that help the poor, but only if those programs can be paid for by the taxes of people making more than 3 times as much as I make. I mean, come on, I cannot possibly afford higher taxes. I'm still building a house at my lakefront property and my kids are going to Princeton in a few years. edit: Plus, it's not like I am rich or anything.