I had this argument with my mom the other day. She agrees private healthcare is a broken system and needs to be fixed, but you bring up public healthcare and she'll fight tooth and nail to argue against it. It's insane. Literal "no take, only throw" tier mindset

They support him for different reasons, and half of those people are unbelievably dumb.

Believe it or not, some of the people cheering him on actually just like chaos and violence and don't have any deeper politics.

They believe in a free market but also believe the free market is currently corrupt.

It's like people who believe in monarchy but hate their corrupt baron.

They're very stupid. Most adults have reading comprehension below a 6th grade level

Because people, on the whole, are very stupid.

Cognitive dissonance.

My parents hate the insurance companies. But they've been convinced by the right wing that the government would handle things worse.

Because they don't realize that it will affect them. They think "this won't hurt me because I actually need Medicare. I'm going to stick it to all the freeloaders, of which I am not one."

But just like being in a car, you aren't stuck in traffic, you are traffic.

The long story short is: communication is hard and media is very powerful.

No one is immune to propaganda and the top 1% owns approximately 95% of the media.

The average Joe is too busy living their life to try to understand anything beyond the basics.

Racism, mostly.

It's not that complicated. The number of people who are in support of Luigi's actions aren't a majority:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll

About 17% overall. There's stark differences between age groups, but none have a majority. Even if the poll is off by 10 points (which would be an egregiously large polling error), only a small but vocal minority are in support.

My wife explains it like this:

Racism.

White voters will cut off their own nose before granting health care to black and brown people.

They dont. The US isn't a democracy, its a plutocracys.

Stop parroting the oligarchs that punch down. Blame the oppressors.

The politics of the ignorant.

People want a world where they are rulers over everyone and everything and often many people just can't understand that there are other living, independent, free thinking individuals in the world. Most people see other humans as a hindrance to their own enjoyment of life.

They love Luigi Mangione because he is against the private health system that is stealing their money .... but at the same time they like Trump because he is against any socialized sharing of government resources - they believe that government should help only them or the worthy and not just everyone, especially those they think are unworthy.

It's a belief system that is based on the individual and only the individual at the cost of everyone else.

Fox News and other right-wing networks convince them they are voting for (or more frequently against) something else. Most of those people simply don't know, and won't believe you if you tell them.

Folks saying racism are wrong. It is an -ism though, just not that one. IMO it's Classism. Same reason they flip shit when someone mentions raising the minimum wage. "Flipping burgers is for teens", meanwhile 1pm on a Tuesday they're getting a Whopper completely oblivious to the fact that there isn't a single person under 30 working there.

First Past The Post voting artificially limiting the number of viable political parties.

"How can people support human rights domestically when they support genocide abroad?"

Even people who want private healthcare don't want valid claims denied or price greedflation. They aren't inherently conflicting stances.

Surveys seem to suggest Luigi approval isn't that high, something like 18% overall and 41% for youth.

Actually, that 41% would be the more questionable vote but then again both parties love insurance companies so there really isn't a clear way to vote for universal healthcare, lol

Because they think: if I have to suffer, everyone has to suffer. If someone hurts someone, I support it because I want to hurt people.

People have been taught to fear single payer healthcare. Money equals speech and the health industry has plenty of it. They control the narrative since the rich and powerful have bought up the media companies. They also control our lawmakers with unlimited money via citizens United; putting roadblocks in place for any sort of fundamental reform.

People vote against their interests as a function of a corrupt oligarchy running the show. People are getting played and just don't know any better / have a limited world-view.

These people have known hardship, and what all of this will mean and feel like when it will soon come to them.

"Rules for theee, but not for meee"

It will impact them, but they'll blame everyone else first, and Trump second.

They're not single issue voters?

Or at least not that issue single issue.

They're fine with privately funded homicide.

Well a lot of reasons but most importantly most people don’t support Luigi, you all are just living in an echo chamber.

Selfishness is the sister of greed

USA, USA!!

Empathy < 0