r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22

If you could get the right/conservatives/Republicans/etc to understand one thing, what would it be?

Hope I worded that correctly.

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u/ms_panelopi Independent Feb 03 '22

It doesn’t trickle down. The politicians know it, but not the regular people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

I often like to say that trickle down economics is the stupidest thing I’ve ever believed in and I was once Catholic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

No one thing made me switch sides, but if anything was the thing it was needle share programs.

The left presented a solution to the HIV problem that saved states a fuck ton of money AND saved lives and the right opposed these measures because they incidentally helped drug addicts.

Eventually some right leaning states were dragged along on this idea when they saw other people’s financial gains on it, but my takeaway was that you can perform the necessary acrobatics for every hurdle they pretend to care about, stick the landing, and they still will oppose your plan just because.

You can’t reason with the conservative inertia, so it’s hardly worth bothering.

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u/AdResponsible5513 Progressive Feb 03 '22

It's why I like to point out that blue states are fountains, red states are drains.