1) Propaganda has nothing to do with reality 2) Personal income and wealth is only one measure of "doing well." For some people, particularly those who are fundamentally motivated to compete with others, it's the how big the difference is between a person and the person below them on the totem pole -- and in that calculus it makes sense to sacrifice, say, $1,000 of income if it means one's metric for success increases by $10,000. There really are people who long for the days when the sheer poverty of everyone who's a have-not meant that the haves could act like lords over peasants... and there's really people who long for the days when they could actually be lords over peasants.
Yes, Heinlein said that one should never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity. Stupidity does not adequately explain the policies of the Republican elite.
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1) Propaganda has nothing to do with reality
2) Personal income and wealth is only one measure of "doing well." For some people, particularly those who are fundamentally motivated to compete with others, it's the how big the difference is between a person and the person below them on the totem pole -- and in that calculus it makes sense to sacrifice, say, $1,000 of income if it means one's metric for success increases by $10,000. There really are people who long for the days when the sheer poverty of everyone who's a have-not meant that the haves could act like lords over peasants... and there's really people who long for the days when they could actually be lords over peasants.
Yes, Heinlein said that one should never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity. Stupidity does not adequately explain the policies of the Republican elite.