Okay but i’m a republican and i dont “need” the $1200 check. But i’m not stupid enough to refuse it.
Right! So for you, even though Republicans say socialism is really bad, a terrible system, you still want it because it will ultimately help you out.
Do you see how those two things sort of cancel out? It’s so terrible, but it’s helping you, and everyone else? If it was that ineffective, it wouldn’t help the American people. Why is it that when capitalism fails, socialism is always brought in to solve the problem? (Remember the trade stuff and tariffs with China and Trump had to give farmers money? That’s socialism! Remember when Trump gave tax cuts to the rich even though of everyone in this country they need it the least? That’s socialism!) Maybe because it works a little better than the wealthy convinces you it does. Maybe because the 1% has convinced you it’s bad so they can continue implementing low wages, poor working conditions, no paid sick leave, and few benefits without any alternative (that socialism would provide) so that you have to accept all that so that they can keep profiting billions off of you. (And then somehow they’re so poorly run they still need 500 billion dollar bailouts in times of crisis!)
If the government can afford to pull $500,000,000,000 out of their ass to give to businesses right now, who should already have had that money anyway, they could afford to give working class Americans (especially those who are poor/paycheck-to-paycheck/in debt/etc) higher wages, lower taxes, and more than the $1200 they’ll be receiving from this recovery check. (Which you don’t even “need” it, like you said, but you still want it. So imagine how the 49% of the population living paycheck to paycheck feel. They need it. They need more, but definitely at least that much because that’s about what they’ve been surviving on anyway.)
I’m not even try to get you to like socialism as much as I’m trying to help you recognize the hypocrisy there. The irony there. You’re getting the short end of the stick. We all are.