the conservative mindset perfectly distilled in a single tweet

[tblue37]

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[niyad]

1. This is The Onion, yes???? PLEASE tell me that this is The Onion.

[EmmaLee E]

4. I don't think even the Onion

Could write satire about this one.

[niyad]

6. Welcome to our DU family.

You may be quite correct.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Damn socialists...

Keep your hands off my social security!!!

[tblue37]

3. She is the rightwinger who couldn't define "woke" when asked on TV.

[niyad]

5. The idiot who wrote a book about "woke"????

[tblue37]

7. Yep.

[niyad]

8. That is hysterically funny!

[Whiskeytide]

9. Either she's trolling, or we need a new word ...

… for this kind of stupid. I just can’t tell anymore.

[lame54]

10. Horatio Idler

[lame54]

11. It takes a village idiot...

Comma left out on purpose

[Hortensis]

12. Makes sense if you understand that current conservative ideology

teaches that those programs tend to draw, not just the needy, but many millions who are needy because a lifetime of liberal "welfare" programs meant they never learned to work and be able to stand on their own feet.

Conservatives in general have a darker view of human nature than liberals. This is proven many times over, one of the traits that influence conservative reactions.

Conservative gut understanding is that people will naturally tend to do wrong if allowed, and that healthy environments naturally reward those who are deserving with nice consequences and discourage wrong behavior by letting the undeserving suffer their consequences.

In any case, the currently much overinflated "truism" is that over time government assistance doesn't just enable and reinforce personal fecklessness but ultimately degrades the character. and survivability of whole societies.

SO, interpretation: In spite of being raised in what hard-core cons will see as an obviously degrading gutter environment, she rose out of it through her own merit. Obviously!