They dont. The US isn’t a democracy, its a plutocracys.
Stop parroting the oligarchs that punch down. Blame the oppressors.
Both are true.
Fox News and other right-wing networks convince them they are voting for (or more frequently against) something else. Most of those people simply don’t know, and won’t believe you if you tell them.
Selfishness is the sister of greed
They’re very stupid. Most adults have reading comprehension below a 6th grade level
Most adults think they have a higher than average IQ, too. Quite the coincidence, don’t you think?
No.
They have higher than median HQ. Not average.
Ask yourself how people can whine for years that people like Pearl, Rittenhouse and Stanley, all clear cases of self defense (or defense of others), are murderers, and then turn around and cheer for a literal (alleged) murderer. Don’t mistake me, in all four cases the victims had it coming for their behavior, but the cognitive dissonance on display would give many a headache trying to rationalize.
Nice bait
I guess when you can’t deny you’ve heard exactly what I’m talking about come out of the mouths of people think self defense should be charged as murder, all you can muster is a pithy accusation of baiting.
Baited
It’s simple:
The free market works as long as we get rid of these evil people.
Oh why can’t we have a Bruce Wayne who is altruistic and would save us since we clearly can’t trust the public to hold a lot of power.
It’s not that complicated. The number of people who are in support of Luigi’s actions aren’t a majority:
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll
About 17% overall. There’s stark differences between age groups, but none have a majority. Even if the poll is off by 10 points (which would be an egregiously large polling error), only a small but vocal minority are in support.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1bLmjKzZ43eLIxZb1Bt9iNAo8ZAZ01Huy/htmlview
The actual Emerson college survey has it at 58.7% of the people find the shooters actions as completely unacceptable. True 16.5% find it completely or somewhat acceptable. Lots of neutral and unsure at 15.9% and somewhat unacceptable at 9%.
BTW this poll isn’t perfectly accurate in who they sampled as 37% south,17.7% northeast , 52% women, 18% post doc, 24% college grad,also so many old people versus young. The demographics aren’t properly proportional.
That being said best insights we have polling though may be a way of the past
In the context of people giving contradictory support to Luigi and denying health care, the neutral responses don’t matter much.
Personally I think it does as the institutional and mainstream answer is completely unacceptable. To have so many waver or not want to answer is pretty telling/meaningful. IMO
OK, but that’s not the context of this post.
Folks saying racism are wrong. It is an -ism though, just not that one. IMO it’s Classism. Same reason they flip shit when someone mentions raising the minimum wage. “Flipping burgers is for teens”, meanwhile 1pm on a Tuesday they’re getting a Whopper completely oblivious to the fact that there isn’t a single person under 30 working there.
First Past The Post voting artificially limiting the number of viable political parties.
“How can people support human rights domestically when they support genocide abroad?”
Racism, mostly.
Someone in another thread (maybe on Reddit, I don’t remember) posited that this is a direct consequence of America’s notion of individualism and I haven’t been able to get that out of my head since.
The United States has fetishized individualism. Enough of the population feels that the individual is above/outside/not part of society. And honestly it’s hard to blame them as non participation is becoming the norm due to financial stress, health stress, blatant lack of education, a clear path towards a state sponsored media while the rest of the media just rolls over.
As stress levels rise the commonality guys down. People withdraw from their communities for various reasons and then society starts to compartmentalize. Tribalism becomes the next big thing and before you know it two poor people are fighting because team blue and team red are now mortal enemies that are not allowed to share a single common view.
My parents hate the insurance companies. But they’ve been convinced by the right wing that the government would handle things worse.
Which is stupid because the government already provides the majority of healthcare in this country and is doing it quite well. Medicare has a 90+% approval rate from the people who use it and it is far more efficient than private insurance.
I agree.
They’re ON Medicare
My wife explains it like this:
Racism.
White voters will cut off their own nose before granting health care to black and brown people.
Once upon a time I’d believe that was all it is/was. I’m convinced now it’s more of an uninformed voter thing. “My dad/family/church/friend votes republican and he’s a good guy. Besides Fox says if the demoncrats win they’ll destroy everything I care about. Sure there’s talk about racism/sexism/etc but I don’t personally see it or have a problem with minorities, LGBTQ, or women, it’s probably just political mudslinging. There’s no way the people I love would support them if they really said those things.”
Well a lot of reasons but most importantly most people don’t support Luigi, you all are just living in an echo chamber.
Even people who want private healthcare don’t want valid claims denied or price greedflation. They aren’t inherently conflicting stances.
Surveys seem to suggest Luigi approval isn’t that high, something like 18% overall and 41% for youth.
Actually, that 41% would be the more questionable vote but then again both parties love insurance companies so there really isn’t a clear way to vote for universal healthcare, lol
