r/askanything • u/SignificantCrow • 5h 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/haveblue23 5h ago

Republicans donate more money to charity than Democrats 

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u/wtfboomers 4h ago

You forgot the part where the majority of their donations are to tax deductible organizations. Democrats tend to give to local and smaller organizations that aren’t tax deductible.

An Econ professor I had one time said that conservatives would stop giving if it wasn’t deductible. Their motives are both good and selfish. He was a small government conservative but a very fact driven professor.