Conservatism is basically just “It’s your own fault that you can’t afford groceries and that you aren’t being paid enough to pay rent.” And surprisingly people don’t like to hear that so sometimes conservatives blame others by saying “It’s the fault of Trans people and Mexicans that you can’t afford groceries and that you aren’t being paid enough to pay rent.” But whenever that doesn’t work they go back to blaming you like how Ben is in this video. And when people don’t buy it conservatives use violence against their opponents to get their way.
saw this play out irl once all the way back in hs when our libbed up english teacher decided to have a class debate around minimum wage raises. Basically devolved into 3 or 4 suburbanite white boys with big houses and stable double income houses vs. the rest of the room attempting to explain how the world works outside there little bubble. As you said it just became of a cycle of them going from "just stop being a lazy poor" or scapegoating fast food workers of all people, like one of there arguments against wage increases was that someone messed up there order at McDonalds one time. As far as I can tell conservatives outside the US(like say islamists or gaullists) at least have some sort of conception of there being a society that you owe some responsibility and that in turn owes you some responsibilities but it seems like the current generation of american conservatism has taken the thatcherite "there is no society" shit to its logical extreme and believing the entire world revolves around there "freedom" to consume commodity and and live in willful ignorance of everything and everyone.
>why am i poor?
<welfare. get a job.
>i have a job. why am i still poor?
<taxes
>okay, we got rid of taxes. why am i still poor?
<laziness. you dont work hard enough.
>i am working harder now but not getting more money
<maybe you should have learned a trade, peasant.
I think it's fascinating
They're dropping the 2010's "cool kid" conservatism that was an attempted avoidance of this type of stuff from the 00's. But it was always there anyway, remember the "ur poor cuz you buy avocado toast" Thiel-ian meme from the mid 2010's that every "cool" altrighter continued to spread?
Either way, no one likes hear a faggy nerd who grew up in Orange County telling them this. Like when Matt Walsh made a video shaming the idea of sick days and that you're lazy and weak for taking them, even every SS nazi pfp hated hearing that shit from a fucking podcaster.
This is not a winning argument
>so sometimes conservatives blame others by saying “It’s the fault of Trans people and Mexicans that you can’t afford groceries and that you aren’t being paid enough to pay rent.”
That's their fallback and it's unfortunately impressive. But it dwindles and dies when you have actual socialists telling you "is the trans immigrants the one controlling your rent and pay? or is it your landlord and boss", which is why socialists are kept out of the overton window
>And when people don’t buy it conservatives use violence against their opponents to get their way.
We're on this stage
Tons of top GOP officials are moving to live on military bases
I'm glad they're afraid but they're planning something