r/askanything • u/SignificantCrow • 9h ago

Political Question Are Republicans inherently selfish?

Not referring to every individual obviously but as a whole, compared to democrats/independents they seem to really only care about themselves or their immediate family and pretty much have a “f**k em” attitude towards literally everyone else. Does anyone else feel this way?

This would explain why so many are against social policies but have no issue dumping much more money into the military instead, for example.

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u/CorpusAlienum_89 8h ago

Which, is quite possibly, certainly covered by many understandings of selfishness?

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u/BlotMutt 8h ago

If that's how you want to frame it as the world not owing anything to anyone. And in a take what you can get mindset.

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u/Troy242426 8h ago

That is, quite literally, the definition of selfishness.

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u/BlotMutt 8h ago edited 7h ago

Hah, fair enough. Selfish is often used as a way to put people down but that's more of a me thing so I'll give ya that.

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u/Wild_Height_901 8h ago

Its called being a rational person

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u/SobBagat 8h ago edited 8h ago

So how's it affected your family having Republicans in power with the wars and the economic turmoil that they've spawned?