badgenome on 05 October 2012
| SamuelRSmith said: One thing's for sure... liberals are often REALLY snappy about people drinking their beers, or daring to share any of their property. I have about a 50/50 split between left and right friends... the righties (including myself) always throw better parties, because we provide more for the party... lefties always want everyone to bring their own. Kind of weird, considering its the righties who are supposed to be the selfish jerks, and the lefties who want to share property, and everything. I suppose they can't afford to provide people with extras, because all their money goes to charity... meanwhile, us righties are flushed with cash after avoiding all our taxes. |
Could be meaningless and purely anecdotal, but one possibility is - and you can see this demonstrated by a lot of well-to-do lefties - is that they tend to project. Because they are selfish they assume that everyone else is also selfish, therefore government has to make us all share. For some reason the fact that government is comprised of people who are also selfish and will ultimately do things for their own benefit never occurs to them. Unless they're in the Wrong Party, of course.
