This is what they do: convince everyone everything is a matter of personal choice.
Tobacco: framed as personal choice
Transportation: personal choice
Climate response: choice
Public health / masking: choice-ified
Who does that serve? The wealthy and powerful, because a population that learns it can work together to solve problems and find solutions that make life better will eventually figure out that together we can solve the problem of *them*
@ininewcrow @sik0fewl
It’s right there in the name: conservative.
Conserving what? The status quo, the way things have always been, the systems that created the winners and oppressions of the past.
Absolutely right not to trust them if you’ve found yourself and your people on the bottom of the wheel. I recognize my own privilege, and I can see that they will happily throw me under the bus too, just to stay on top.