How is it not obvious that either 1: they are rigging shit and simply not allowing us to actually win and/or 2: people are actually too fucking stupid to understand that FOR PROFIT ANYTHING will cost more money.

Like it has to be 1 because i refuse to believe everyone is this fucking stupid. We are past the ballot box.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The funny thing is that a lot of Conservatives think that the profit motive + free market efficiencies will reduce costs, and that public systems are full of lazy incompetents who are wasting taxpayer dollars.

And... They're not entirely wrong, either. And I say this as an educated NDP voter. They're mostly wrong, because of many factors that mostly boil down to 1%ers building laws and systems to further concentrate wealth. And that wealth they're hoarding is from profit motive leading to lower costs and the free market increasing efficiency... And also from profit motive leading to higher prices and that most of the reduced costs aren't efficiencies, they're cutting corners to deliver inferior services.

But their world view:

Makes sense
Is simple
It's internally consistent and coherent
It's supported by lots of research (mostly in theoretical economics, mind you...)
Blames "others"/outsiders for their problems
Etc. etc. etc.

There's a reason uneducated, young, white, male voters are flocking to the Cons. The Left's answers are, by comparison, complicated and messy, with lots of grey area, and involve significant change to systems that have perpetuated white make privilege. So, even though uneducated white males would be far better off in a progressive world, it's much harder to convince them.