Democratic West Virginia senator calls the Inflation Reduction Act, hailed as ā€˜biggest step on climate crisisā€™, a ā€˜radical agendaā€™

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just look for a poll about what policies they support.

    If you ask them for a label theyā€™ll say conservative. But a poll that asks about specific policies will show they support progressive ones.

    If I linked a single poll, people would say I cherry picked or keep sea Lioning me for more.

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      1 year ago

      This is generally true of conservatives / GOP voters as a whole (though, of course, there are always exceptions).

      When you ask them about policies without words or phrases they have been taught to react to, they almost always support ā€¦ maybe not progressive ideas, but moderately liberal ones. When asked about healthcare, for instance, they react strongly against ā€œObamacareā€ and ā€œACAā€ and now, ā€œindividual mandateā€. But explain what the ACA does, and how it works, and how insurance companies have to spend certain percentage of their revenue on healthcare instead of profits, and conservatives love it.

      They donā€™t get upset until they hear words or phrases the media has told them to get upset about.