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Originally Posted by FlameOn
I don't understand why social spending is so scary for Americans and funding of the magnitudes more spent on the military, and welfare for corporate rich seem to be perfectly acceptable?
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The sense I get, and I have nothing to go off of other than what I've observed, is the the average American likes to cheer on their side to win. All the "USA! USA! USA!" chants in sports also bleeds into how they view things like their military and their economy. As long as they're top dog, they seem ok to pour billions and billions into military spending and economic bailouts to keep it that way. But the average American also cling onto this "American dream" where as long as you you work hard and earn your money, you pay for your own way, and thus they are really opposed to fund the "greater good" in helping others that they deem didn't work as hard as them. So they are ok with things that prop up their self image (as a country), but are really against things that they feel they are unfairly on the hook for (ie. public healthcare).
Just my two cents. I could be way out to lunch with how I think, as I've never been an American.