Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’
by nubbins on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:38PM
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A lot of conservatives see the value in private arrangements (ie social capital) over public programs certainly, but I think their pro big business policies and suburbanization, inequality etc drive social atomization at least as much as the lefts policies do. Its a complicated problem and as long as we remain deeply commited to economic growth and individualism its hard for me to see how we can solve it.
Re:The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’
by scarface74 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:46PM
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While I have many thoughts about organized religion, one way that I see it benefits people is that it does give people a sense of community.
And when you think you have an invisible being in the sky that will take care of all of your needs, a government provided social safety net isn’t that important to some people.
Conservatives understand this very well, BTW; strong social capital is key to the conservative worldview, whereas a "liberal" is often more inclined to see the world in terms of material relations of production and an inherently-unstable balance of power, and even the very notion of social atomization might be entirely foreign to them.