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JMFK's avatar

The reason we don't have the Swedes' kind of public "buy-in" is that a significant percentage of our citizens have been convinced by RW racist propaganda that they don't want their hard-earned money being taxed to benefit people who are not like themselves, even if that means voting against their own interests. I wonder if Sweden would have as much buy-in if their population was as diverse.

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Color Me Skeptical's avatar

"People who are not like themselves..." - you can just say Black and brown people and non-Christians. Let's just be honest that it is the right-wing racism and Christian-nationalism.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

I was going to make this point explicitly. As long as it is perceived that these programs will benefit "them", people will cut their own noses off to prevent one of them from getting something they didn't explicitly earn

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