rings through their noses have a very large cake cutter, and they're using it to take wealth and power from all of us.
For instance, they want to stop paying into social programs, or at least cut their share of taxes dramatically. Conservatives like their social programs very much, thank you, as much as we do as long as they don't go to the undeserving.
Gee, how to get conservative voters to agree to cut their own programs?
Well, support for our social programs drops substantially when it's believed a disproportionate share is going to the "undeserving" taking what they don't have a right to and haven't contributed for. We all feel that way to varying degrees, but conservatives especially. It's not just negativism. They honestly see misguided social spending as very harmful to the moral fiber of society, and there is strong evidence that it can be, but they're encouraged to imagine it a huge problem, rather than small, and not to recognize the very real benefits of some charity to and investments in others.
So a big part of the answer is to make conservative voters believe that they're being cheated while large numbers of scum are making out like bandits and that the fix is to "reform" social spending. Of course, Republican reforms out to be cuts for everyone and new restrictions on access. But that's not what's being explained to them, and they're kept too indignant and distracted by visions of millions of smirking cheaters swigging beer in their recliners to notice. Until it's too late, of course, and then their handlers will make sure they take the wrong lesson from it.
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