It’s not that complicated. The number of people who are in support of Luigi’s actions aren’t a majority:
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll
About 17% overall. There’s stark differences between age groups, but none have a majority. Even if the poll is off by 10 points (which would be an egregiously large polling error), only a small but vocal minority are in support.
Fox News and other right-wing networks convince them they are voting for (or more frequently against) something else. Most of those people simply don’t know, and won’t believe you if you tell them.
It’s simple:
The free market works as long as we get rid of these evil people.
Oh why can’t we have a Bruce Wayne who is altruistic and would save us since we clearly can’t trust the public to hold a lot of power.
Folks saying racism are wrong. It is an -ism though, just not that one. IMO it’s Classism. Same reason they flip shit when someone mentions raising the minimum wage. “Flipping burgers is for teens”, meanwhile 1pm on a Tuesday they’re getting a Whopper completely oblivious to the fact that there isn’t a single person under 30 working there.
Racism, mostly.
Someone in another thread (maybe on Reddit, I don’t remember) posited that this is a direct consequence of America’s notion of individualism and I haven’t been able to get that out of my head since.
It’s a slippery slope from individualism to the fear of the Other.
The United States has fetishized individualism. Enough of the population feels that the individual is above/outside/not part of society. And honestly it’s hard to blame them as non participation is becoming the norm due to financial stress, health stress, blatant lack of education, a clear path towards a state sponsored media while the rest of the media just rolls over.
As stress levels rise the commonality guys down. People withdraw from their communities for various reasons and then society starts to compartmentalize. Tribalism becomes the next big thing and before you know it two poor people are fighting because team blue and team red are now mortal enemies that are not allowed to share a single common view.
First Past The Post voting artificially limiting the number of viable political parties.
“How can people support human rights domestically when they support genocide abroad?”
My parents hate the insurance companies. But they’ve been convinced by the right wing that the government would handle things worse.
Which is stupid because the government already provides the majority of healthcare in this country and is doing it quite well. Medicare has a 90+% approval rate from the people who use it and it is far more efficient than private insurance.
I agree.
They’re ON Medicare
I had this argument with my mom the other day. She agrees private healthcare is a broken system and needs to be fixed, but you bring up public healthcare and she’ll fight tooth and nail to argue against it. It’s insane. Literal “no take, only throw” tier mindset
Propaganda. People have been told their whole lives that socialism is pure evil, nevermind what socialism actually is. Public healthcare is socialism, therefore it’s evil.
My wife explains it like this:
Racism.
White voters will cut off their own nose before granting health care to black and brown people.
They believe in a free market but also believe the free market is currently corrupt.
It’s like people who believe in monarchy but hate their corrupt baron.
Believe it or not, some of the people cheering him on actually just like chaos and violence and don’t have any deeper politics.
I do not believe you. I believe that it shows that the elections were not true to the opinions of the people.
This seems like a slur.
Because they don’t realize that it will affect them. They think “this won’t hurt me because I actually need Medicare. I’m going to stick it to all the freeloaders, of which I am not one.”
But just like being in a car, you aren’t stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
They support him for different reasons, and half of those people are unbelievably dumb.
They’re very stupid. Most adults have reading comprehension below a 6th grade level
Most adults think they have a higher than average IQ, too. Quite the coincidence, don’t you think?
No one is immune to propaganda and the top 1% owns approximately 95% of the media.
The average Joe is too busy living their life to try to understand anything beyond the basics.
Some of us do seem to be immune to the propaganda, though. I’ve heard so much anti-union propaganda. I’ve heard so much anti-Socialist rhetoric, anti-woke bullshit, etc. I was educated and employed in a red state.
Yet, here I am telling you that Socialism is the truth. Unions are awesome. I support just about any marginalized groups rights. Many of my friends and family feel the same even though they were educated and indoctrinated in the same system.
There is a lot more to it than just propaganda. I would say that tribalism plays a larger role. When someone is born into a conservative family, surrounded by conservative citizens, it becomes a lot easier to just agree with the status quo in the area to fit in. I can tell you, from my experience, that I was not very popular in school, due to being a dirty leftist with empathy.
I will say that my immediate family is not religious, not conservative, and they are very open minded, loving and empathetic people. This is probably the main reason I was immune to the propaganda.
The first step to falling for the propaganda is believing that you’re immune to the propaganda.
Fair point. I guess I’m not immune. I was protected from that kind of propaganda by the armor of wise and empathetic family members, and their ability to educate and lead by example.
