"...there's no one in this entire world who hates Americans.......more than other Americans."
https://www.facebook.com/kc.wells.9KC Wells
Look, I don’t super care about what ppl think about this student loan forgiveness thing, or Biden, or whatever. I get it. Debt redistribution, money isn’t free, etc. Fine. There’s good things about it and there’s not so good things about it.
My issue is that there’s no one in this entire world who hates Americans…….more than other Americans. This country, as a whole, is comprised of just the most selfish fucking society, man. Ppl get all up in their feelings at even the mere THOUGHT of anyone getting anything that they didn’t get.
Raise the minimum wage to a barely livable $15? “NO! MY precious, important job pays me $20, so burger flippers don’t deserve to make anywhere close to what I’M making!!”
Cancel student debt?
“NO! I already paid my loans off, why do THEY get their’s cancelled.”
Affordable healthcare for all?
“NO! I’m not paying more taxes so that my neighbor can see a doctor about his medical condition!!”
We are our own oppressors and we’ve been conditioned to be that. We’re doing their work for them. It’s been seared into us that helping each other is a bad thing. That this country is not actually greater than the sum of its parts. We’ve been told that if someone who has nothing gets something, it’s because they took it from someone who also has nothing. And we believed all of it. Meanwhile, the ppl who have everything are laughing their asses off.
We don’t compromise. We don’t share. We don’t sacrifice. We don’t want to do anything to help the next person. Why? Because no one helped us. So fuck everyone else. Never considering that you deserved help too. It just didn’t come when you needed it, unfortunately.
People don’t want this country to be better. They just want it to be better for THEM. And that’s it. Full stop. Apparently, progress should be measured on an individual basis, not collective.
And then we wonder why we’re being completely lapped by other countries in every major category. Because those places understand that access to healthcare without having to go into debt is better for EVERYONE. Access to education without going into debt is better for EVERYONE. Access to affordable living without going into debt is better for EVERYONE.
Not here, though. We’re perfectly fine with our taxes going to more military bullshit. We’re perfectly fine with debt companies getting rich off of collecting student debts. We’re perfectly fine with keeping ppl below the poverty line because they work a job that we think is beneath us.
Seems legit.
This whole “Why should that person be rescued from drowning when I was forced to swim to shore” bullshit ain’t it. And it’s nothing to be proud of.
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Hitler did too. Every populist leader does, and every aggrieved populist follower laps it up.
Senator Sanders uses a different direction of approach for his class-based LW populism, but same methods. He gives some pro forma credit to the Democrats' loan forgiveness, but his populist responses to all happenings focus as reliably as the Republicans' do on grievance and victimization by elites (doesn't begin to be enough, how about all the people who were denied debt relief, we don't have a government that works for the people, instead works for those on top, etc, etc.)
Even something positive like this gets the treatment because populist leaders are SUPPOSED to use every event to make people more upset, more dissatisfied, feeling more personally victimized. tRump's populist movement can't survive without keeping grievance stoked and to succeed need to grow it into an establishment-destroying inferno.
So, of course to this particular RW narrative. What's the saying, "as predictable as bread falling butter side down"?
Politicians who vote against disaster aid for other states but hold their own begging hand out for hurricane/tornado relief.
'We're tough and independent and take care of ourselves' until it happens to them.
