he was doing exactly what their political ideology encouraged and allowed him to do. it makes no sense. this dude is just as evil as any other CEO who is condemning people to slave labor or whatever other example you'd want to give, so why is it that if people said those CEOs should get the same treatment, most right wingers would lose their shit? i think personally it's because their lives are detached from the suffering all the other CEOs cause, but they probably had a family member or friend personally die due to how health insurance works in this country. so they aren't even being based or anything, they're just selfishly saying it's bad when their family suffers the consequences of capitalism with no care for anybody else who has to in other ways.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

he was doing exactly what their political ideology encouraged and allowed him to do

Most people don't consciously have an explicit political ideology. They have an assortment of things they do or do not like and will call themselves whatever their favorite talking head (or the status quo if it is working well for them) describes themselves as
That talking head is usually chosen based on which of the collection of likes/dislikes the person finds most important

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

This is what Zizek calls a Pure Ideology. One in which there is no self-reflection to align ones values with an ideology that actually has those values. Instead the material conditions of the world around them make it impossible for them to do so.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

It's for the same reason JD Vance promises to his followers that Trump will "stick it to Wall Street". Your average Trump voter isn't a capitalist ideologue. They don't like billionaires, they don't like their bosses, they don't care if CEOs get hunted in the streets. They're pro-capitalist solely because Fox News says it's good, they haven't the slightest clue what it means.

You gotta remember that most people aren't complete freaks and are capable of empathy. There's a very good reason nobody knows what capitalism actually entails and why there's so much anti-communist fearmongering. Because if people actually knew what these words meant, many right-wingers would change their minds.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

So many conservatives don’t think the problem is systemic to capitalism or that’s this is how the system is meant to work. They honestly believe it is just greedy people abusing the system and ruining capitalism for everyone else.

There’s still an education gap, as well as the empathy gap you mentioned.