If you’re going for Foxnews-speak ya gotta mix in a healthy serving of zero-sum into the rhetoric:
"Healthcare for everyone?! So they want your good healthcare to suffer with longer waits and lower services.
"Housing for everyone?!? Say goodbye to your financial nest egg in your house you’ve been paying on for 30 years. If everyone has housing, your house is now worthless because who would pay for something they get for free?:
“College for all?! Oh, so you had to pay your student loans off over 30 years, but now they get it for free?! That’s not fair to you!”
“Tax the rich?! They’re coming for your savings because obviously your life savings of $100,000 at age 65 is what they’re talking about when they say to ‘tax the rich’.”
For Foxnews crowd its frequently a fear appeal that someone is taking from them.
The implication is that wealthy people will ultimately have to pay for it all and will lose their wealth and thereafter just be normal.
Weirdly, lots of poor people jump on this band wagon because they “identify as” wealthy people. My parents belong in this category. They used to be called “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, but a millionaire isn’t really that wealthy any more.
Regardless, you have this bizarre situation of poor people voting to improve the situations of wealthy people, because that’s who they aspire to be.
Yes but, they put those thinga up to ridicule. They dont even bother trying to give reason why they think theyre bad.
They just put them up and go:
“Healthcare for everyone??! Thats crazy, only crazy people think that”.
“Housing for everyone?!? Thats communist, and we all know thats dumb and bad”.
And thats it. Their viewers go “hawhaw, dumb communists, yea thats right theyre crazy!!”
If you’re going for Foxnews-speak ya gotta mix in a healthy serving of zero-sum into the rhetoric:
For Foxnews crowd its frequently a fear appeal that someone is taking from them.
The implication is that wealthy people will ultimately have to pay for it all and will lose their wealth and thereafter just be normal.
Weirdly, lots of poor people jump on this band wagon because they “identify as” wealthy people. My parents belong in this category. They used to be called “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, but a millionaire isn’t really that wealthy any more.
Regardless, you have this bizarre situation of poor people voting to improve the situations of wealthy people, because that’s who they aspire to be.
Yes, it’s bonkers.