Reply #19: These aren't meant to be rational arguments

[booley]

They are meant to be emotional appeals, reinforcing the listener's prejudices and belief system.

All of the statements above can be seen through certain prisms of right wing thought.... The victim is to blame since society isn't at fault (If someone is poor, it must be something THEY did), that there is a natural hierarchy where some people get more advantages and then others (and so equality is an "attack" on those higher up the hierarchy) and Jingoism (well it couldn't be My country that did anything wrong. It must be those other countries)

While we can see that these are wrong even insane premises, it's also in large part because we have don't share the world view they do. And to combat their world view, we need to understand it, not just mock it.