I started out at a minimum wage of $2.85, worked up to $3.35, and then something like $4.00 within a year. If you stay at Minimum Wage, you are an idiot.
When you look at left wing propaganda campaigns, you need to understand they are PLANNED. They are planned with roughly the same diligence Proctor and Gamble uses to roll out new products. They focus group everything, work out the specific words and images that best create EMOTIONAL reactions, and then simply repeat them with the discipline of Madison Avenue.
People get impassioned, infuriated, about how conservatives are just big meany heads who want people to starve. If this were true, I would understand the anger. And it is true, in some cases. I have met Republicans like that. But in the worst case a Republican is heartless and solely concerned with his advancement and caring for his “tribe”. Such a person not only is not a drag on society, but is likely to be someone who pays a disproportionate amount in taxes. Such a person may be a sociopath, but they are socially useful sociopaths.
I would contrast this with a sociopath of the Democrat variety who, while calling for and implementing policies which decrease national wealth and security, claims to be advancing humankind, and does all of this, also, for purely personal interest. The callousness and cynicism is not a jot different, but it works to make the world worse. Joe Biden is an excellent example of that. So is Hillary. In my view both are conniving sociopaths. In Joe’s case, the reason he keeps up with the malapropisms is HE DOESN’T CARE. He is incapable of shame or embarrassment.
To return to my point, the reality is that most Republicans have very active moral senses, and are at least as likely to help anyone who needs their help. They take care of themselves, those around them, and those in need in the community. They are much more likely to be generous in their personal charity donations.
The key difference is that most of us simply understand economics and political science. It takes more courage and brainpower to think things through than to join the parades of goose-steppers, who are everywhere, carrying their torches and singing anti-patriotic songs.
We value dignity, and understand that there is a profound difference between having a job and being on the dole. The psychological costs of socialism can readily be measured, once one takes up the simple expedient of connecting structural unemployment with excessive regulation and taxation. The connection could not be more historically clear or obvious.
Telling the truth is simply difficult for a great many people, particularly intelligent people, who have ingested particularly complex untruths, and grown what they think are wings, but which are really intellectual cancers.