Many of us are turned off by Bricker’s despicable right-wing opinions.
People who do not have health insurance cannot survive a major health crisis, but Bricker is happy to let those people die.
And then, to increase the irritation, he babbles on about “non-falsifiable” — if anyone challenges his assumptions he’ll invoke his faulty standards of proof — and also (despite that he seems to claim all morality is relative) call his detractor “immoral.” Notice how he twists the point at the end of the excerpted post: “I’d rather die, myself, than …” The discussion wasn’t about Bricker dying; it’s about his complacency in supporting Ryan_No_Care which would cause the deaths of others.
Many right-wingers are too ignorant to cope with economic analyses or utilitarianism. Some are obsessed with hyperlibertarian thought and have let Alex Jones and other YouTube bugs or mises.org make them honestly believe that health care for all would magically arise if the gummint just got out of the way.
But neither of these describe Bricker. He’s fully aware that his policies would destroy the lives of millions and that delights him. His post shrieks: “I’ve got mine. Fuck you!” If he were a multimillionaire he might be able to enjoy life by knowing that others can’t fly on private jets or eat caviar or hire the best hookers. Since he’s not so successful, he likes knowing that poor people can’t get medical treatment, can’t go to the opera, etc. I doubt if he was some childhood bully who enjoyed crippling living animals, but in adulthood he’s become a bitter little man.
He’s got me on Ignore or I’d have clicked on the above post and asked him, since he wants “people to pay their own costs,” about police protection, public schools, public defenders. I suspect that he supports public education but not because he wants poor people to improve their lot for themselves, just because he thinks general education(*) will improve life for the “better people” like himself.
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- By “education”, he means training to become cogs in the economic machine that supports the elite. I’m sure he opposes taxpayer-funded teaching of critical thinking skills, social sciences, or humanities. In another thread he opposed all federal spending on art or science until the weight of evidence was sufficient to expose his hypocrisy. He tries to avoid making his inhumane views clear, preferring to babble on and on about states’ rights: if the sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia wants to discriminate against the poor or a minority race, that’s “democracy at its finest. Your side lost. Giggle giggle.”
There are a few right-wingers at SDMB with views as despicable as Bricker’s. But they are mostly doltish drones who idolize Trump and only read RightWingLies.com. Bricker, OTOH, is obviously intelligent and probably even clicks on mainstream news sites. That’s what makes his hatreds so sad. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.