Anonymous
08/08/2025 13:32
Subject: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps - do everything yourself mentality
Anonymous wrote:"pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is literally impossible. The core principle of US Republicanism is hating humanity. They cannot survive a fair competition, so they must constantly assert their right to be privileged above others.
Democrats have become the same
Importing millions of low wage workers and telling US citizens to compete with the illegal aliens
No US worker should ever vote for a Democrat
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:33
Subject: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps - do everything yourself mentality
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do republicans have this attitude? They completely lack any empathy or sympathy for people who have different circumstances than themselves. They cannot fathom that some people have been systematically oppressed both individually and at an institutional/macro level and the “bootstrap” method doesn’t work for everybody.
I am pretty sure republicans could see a starving child and eat a sandwich in front of them and tell them they should have figured out how to get the sandwich themselves by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and being a better person.
And how many starving children have you personally adopted?
Other poster here. And this is why it’s such a shame the administration is destroying contraception that could be sent to poor places where people can’t take care of extra/unwanted children.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:27
Subject: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps - do everything yourself mentality
Anonymous wrote:Why do republicans have this attitude? They completely lack any empathy or sympathy for people who have different circumstances than themselves. They cannot fathom that some people have been systematically oppressed both individually and at an institutional/macro level and the “bootstrap” method doesn’t work for everybody.
I am pretty sure republicans could see a starving child and eat a sandwich in front of them and tell them they should have figured out how to get the sandwich themselves by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and being a better person.
And how many starving children have you personally adopted?
Anonymous
08/07/2025 17:11
Subject: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps - do everything yourself mentality
Anonymous wrote:I read that hyper independence in an adult is a trauma response from a bad childhood, that the parents or the environment made the child feel they could only depend on themselves. I wonder how many Americans who experienced such trauma as children also vote for limited government assistance for everyone. Does the Republican brand attract these people?
In my experience usually the parents who have them a bad childhood are also Republican. And yes, the current Republican brand of anger and hate attracts these people. I am related to many of them, but my parents did their very best, unlike theirs.