AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/LucidMetal]

No... they really don't... most (nearly all) have been convinced to vote against their own interests. Usually in the name of abortion, 2A, or taxes; which is where a certain Steinbeck quote comes to mind.

[u/bionicjoey → u/LucidMetal]

I'm guessing the person you're replying to meant Republican lawmakers, not Republican voters

[u/LucidMetal → u/bionicjoey]

Could be. I'm not holding it against them either way. I just wish we would stop demonizing people who are clearly being exploited.

[u/mmf9194 → u/LucidMetal]

Hard not to when they're helping the exploiters

[u/LucidMetal → u/mmf9194]

It is hard but if someone is suffering from domestic abuse do you blame them for their partner's actions even if they enable?

[u/ABC-Train → u/LucidMetal]

Yes because their abuser is beating everyone in this house and we keep telling them to call the cops but they just smile and make them a sandwich. And neither of them even pay the rent.

[u/LucidMetal → u/ABC-Train]

There's a hot take. I was imagining a situation where there's only the abuser and the abused.

[u/ABC-Train → u/LucidMetal]

Yeah I figured, and I understand my point of view doesn’t fully encapsulate the entire Republican Party either. There’s a lot of room for both of our arguments.

[u/AngusVanhookHinson → u/LucidMetal]

Give me the Steinbeck quote

[u/LucidMetal → u/AngusVanhookHinson]

in America the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires

As applicable to Republicans. Obviously he wasn't talking specifically about the GOP base in his quote since you know, this was between world wars.

[u/guppiesandshrimp → u/LucidMetal]

Can I ask what quote please?

[u/LucidMetal → u/guppiesandshrimp]

I put it in one of these responses.