Sometimes I’m a little slow. It took me this long to figure out another reason why people who vote Conservative don’t give a shit about the privatisation of health care and other public services.
They figure they don’t need it.
So Conservative voters who don’t have children don’t care about public schools. They have the resources to take care of themselves and are therefore probably healthier than the average person, so they don’t need public health care. And they definitely don’t care about parks or bike lanes or public transit or community centres because they just don’t use them. They probably don’t even know much, if anything, about them.
And if they do need it they can afford to pay for it.
Also known as, so why subsidize others? Each for themselves only.
So the Conservative voters with kids put their kids in private schools. (and yes, I am well aware of this particular irony). Or they pay their own private health providers wherever they can anyway. So why pay for public health care?
So yea, while I knew it was all about greed before, I only ever thought of it as “I want to pay less taxes / I want to run my business without regulation.” I never thought about the day-to-day arrogance of the Conservative viewpoint. I guess I have PP to thank for that.
And I’m still amazed at the average person who votes Conservative. I mean, I get the CEOs and heads of banking divisions and stuff but seriously, the vast vast majority of us have far more in common with the people camping out in my local park than we do with millionaires. And many people are far closer to becoming the people camping out in the park than we are to becoming millionaires. And I like to think that even if I somehow became a millionaire, I’d still give a shit about other people, the environment, our descendants etc.
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*For the non-Canadians, the Conservative Party (of Canada and each province will have their own variant as well) is the right-wing political party in Canada. They promote “traditional” values, institutions, and biases. Conservative platforms and politicians are often anti-immigration, pro-centralised authority, paternalistic, misogynistic, definitely anti-free press etc.
