the fear that someone, somewhere, is Getting More Than Their Share.
I've argued before that this is the entire driving value of the current right wing in the US. It is the only framework that explains the anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, "what's wrong with Kansas" shit which honestly is completely fucking unbelievable otherwise.
(I don't mean that people can't legitimately have differences of opinion. But the way that people will vote and act so entirely against their own interests when they're barely scraping by as is? This is where is comes from.)
New York City used to have Rattus rattus (known as black rats, roof rats or ship rats), and Rattus norvegicus (brown rats). The brown rats are bigger and meaner and killed all the roof rats.
Just so they're not on my roof.
That's not directed at Connie's DH.
I was just going to take that in the spirit of general positiveness.
But the way that people will vote and act so entirely against their own interests when they're barely scraping by as is?
Someone told me once that people do this because it makes them feel wealthier/more affluent even if it clearly is against their interest.
My parents have friends, family of four, who currently have NO health insurance. But the are opposed to any health reform. I don't know why but it's 100% aganst their interest. Oh, but they don't mind moving to Canada and using their healthcare. Totally nuts, I think.
Oh, but they don't mind moving to Canada and using their healthcare.
!??! So they are OK with Canadian taxes, just not US?
I know. It made NO sense. I asked my dad the same question but he couldn't answer either.
That way they wouldn't destroy the Canadian way of life, which is already a lost cause, anyway?
Taxes other people pay are not the same thing.
For Teppy.
That's an excellent capper to my weekend! I will toddle off to bed with visions of semi-colons dancing in my head.
