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This is the messaging that we, as the left, fail to get across. Multiracial, multiethnic, international cooperation is good and has knock on effects for everyone.
But those words can’t overcome primal fear and greed.
Not saying the liberal message doesn't need fine tuning. It absolutely does.
But let's not ignore the fact that for many conservatives, suffering is the goal.
Conservatives are fully okay with things like welfare and social programs.....so long as it's only for them.
It's all those other people who are too lazy to get a job and work for a living. They are the ones that don't deserve government hand outs.
In other words, fear. The cruelty is their best idea for keeping the people they fear under control.
It’s their only idea, because it’s how they were raised and how they live their lives.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/