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I'm not sure that John is republican.No I think he literally believes “give them free shit so they don’t have to work”. The right genuinely believes poor people are lazy and have to starved to the point where they have no choice but to take any job that’s offered.
Mitch McConnell tried to cut people off unemployment in 2009 so as to force workers to find jobs that didn’t exist. Ditto 2020 and 2021. If not for Pelosi holding further aid to corporations hostage to a bail out for American workers, they wouldn’t have received anything beyond the enhanced UI benefits.
Republicans then blamed the benefits being paid during covid for the labour shortages, and the raises given to lure workers to short staffed companies as “inflationary”. Thus voting against their own best interests.
Republicans go batshit crazy when working people and the middle class get money from the government.
But you are right about Republicans in general.