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  • Yes, but they get there “backwards”.

    It’s not like they believe healthcare is inherently demotivating, it’s that they’re already Red Team members, and “Healthcare and welfare breed moochers” is a Red Team belief, and since they’re good Red Team members, they synthesize it into their belief system–despite the fact functionally no one rips off the healthcare system because, frankly, you have to have some kind of pathology to visit a doctor enough for fraud to be an issue.

    I mean “Oh noes, they’re ripping off the healthcare systems by… (checks notes) …getting antibiotics for their earache!!” is not a thing. Ever.

    Everyone, even in countries with socialized medicine, avoids interactions with the healthcare system until they need to. I mean, do you you really want to recreationally get your throat swabbed? I’m sure there’s four people on this planet of nine billion who get off on that, but that’s it.

    Now, rich people, they come to this believe authentically. They hate public healthcare because a) they have to pay for it, and b) it’s one less piece of leverage they have to keep people shackled to work. But make no mistake, they also suffer from the delusion, above.







  • The NDP keeps making the same mistake: they try to be “serious” and “centrist” and get flanked by the Liberals every fucking time because, if you want a socially liberal but economically centrist party, the Liberals already fucking exist.

    The NDP has been ducking the “socialist” label since Ontario’s Rae government fell because they’re big scared of being called socialists. Which is hysterical because the conservatives will call anyone left Mussolini “socialist!” because, in right-wing circles, words don’t have meaning.

    They’re refusing to fight the class war, and as a result they’ve ceded the working class to the fucking Conservatives. Which is insane.

    Charlie Angus is about the only NDP member making a lot of noise about this, and he’s retiring. The NDP should be a populist party, but they’re afraid to be