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/Barnabas_77 3h ago

I would say no and my reasoning is that classical conservative viewpoint is that it shouldn’t be the governments job to take care of people. It should be the people’s job to take care of people. So no, as a political stance it’s more about small government than self serving interests because it puts the responsibility on the local community and not the government. Sure a lot of people are selfish, but that’s not inherent to a political ideology