The GOP gave up on attempting to even put up a facade of “we’re trying to help you” at least a decade ago. At this point, they’ve convinced their voters that we cannot afford to help everyone, so we only help minorities. And because of that, they would rather we just help nobody.

When the reality is, we could very easily provide for all of the needs of every citizen several times over if people actually paid their fair share in taxes.

But you add in the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mindset that has infected the minds of American workers, and you end up with a bunch of sad, angry, jingoistic people who do everything they can to make sure nobody gets any help for anything.

Well, that is, until they personally need it. Then it’s different.

Almost as if there’s been a concerted effort for decades to push concepts like “rugged individualism” over collectivism, and “American exceptionalism,” while literally sabotaging our own education system so that people remain ignorant enough to continue voting against their interests…