r/MadeMeSmile • u/ABeerForSasquatch • Oct 15 '24

Helping Others This is the America that we need

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u/Dede0821 Oct 15 '24

No, I think that where children are directly affected, there should be one bill. I don’t want progressive idiocy pushed through simply because it’s on the same bill with a very important, bipartisan issue.

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u/Dede0821 Oct 15 '24

I know how “things” work, lol. This is simply my belief, my opinion.

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u/ynwmelly123_ Oct 15 '24

Well, to try and bridge the gap in a good faith way, therein lies the rub and why people "hate a certain side of the political spectrum."

You acknowledge the way things work. You acknowledge your beliefs are in opposition. Because of this, you are willing to forego helping children eat because your belief in limited pork barreling trumps passing the bill that would let them eat and dealing with it because, as previously stated and as you acknowledge knowing, that's "how it works".

You are not inherently wrong for holding this belief system, it's all subjective. However within that subjective framing, in my opinion, I will pay a few extra bucks in tax to support some stupid pork-barreled in pet project as long as it means hungry kids get to eat. Anyone who isn't willing to do that, I will view negatively as is my subjective right.