I think this one gets closer. The aim is "less is more". The priority is to avoid using government to accomplish things that can instead be done at a smaller scale. Hence why looking at policy to determine views results in weird conclusions. https://twitter.com/ryansroberts/status/1017064697688977410?s=19 …
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They don't particularly do things at a smaller scale though, do they? When you think "Charitable contributors," you don't think "Koch brothers" or "Donald Trump" or etc. (I actually can't think of a mainstream right-wing charity contributor besides Thiel.) You think of Gates+co.
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Most of it is small scale philanthropy, or religious I think
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It really makes you wonder, doesn't it? Like, "Everything will be cured by philanthropy!" sounds awesome but...if it's just poor people helping worse-off poor people, and not the people making policy....hm.
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And generally those are food banks and the like, not say, medical help.
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I'd say the impetus behind right-wing philanthropy (minus the Neo-Cons) is along the lines of "we can help the needy in our community through charity" with an implicit "if they're not in my community, I don't want to be involved in their welfare at all."
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What exactly /is there/ in terms of the right helping people with medical costs, or housing costs or educational cost? Genuinely curious here - even if it's just in the context of a local community. I can pretty much only think of food banks.
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@asymmetricinfo writes about this, could check her ouevre Re: community as deserving, I think that's not quite right, or at least the balance isn't what you seem to suggest Lotta religious charity outreach to third world, see also Bush on AIDS3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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tbh the fact that we bundle religious fundamentalists and libertarian-conservatives (and oldschool fascists?) together as "the right" is why it's so challenging to have a reasonable discussion.
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(Hate to go off-topic here, but most Christians are generally left-wing in practice, IMO. At least in the Catholic/Lutheran realm of things.)
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There's a ton of heterogeneity at least, ime However note in a lot of Left circles if you're religious you're automatic outgroup
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I haven't really seen a tonne of exclusion because of religion, personally. Hm. This is interesting.
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