No Stupid Questions

Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?

For the rich: money reduces empathy. There a a few funny studies on the matter, including one on lottery winners. Plus the very wealthy live in their own bubble.

For the poor: propaganda. Lack of education in logic, sociology, macroeconomics, human relationships. A complete education is not all math and literature and hard science.

trying everything they can to harm people who need any sort of assistance?

The power-hungry want power, control, coercion. Through media power, cronyism they allied with the ultra rich who have power and want docile workers.

The dominated Republicans are fighting the ghost of people abusing the system, afraid of change, hiding in conservatism, backing into 1930s racism. They didn't think the powerful Republicans would cut their help, only do something about their fears.

Pretend I am rich? Like how much money am I getting back by Republicans kicking men off healthcare or destroying insurance for those who need it most. It must be alot right?

It's not about economics: healthcare and general welfare have a net positive impact, up to the point of housing homeless people costs globally less than having them on the street.

Personal gain is really at stake only when said service is repurchased by friends of the government, e.g. medical research, police, military, roads anything can go. Helping the poor can't really be sold. Policing them, yes.

You can't hoard wealth and distribute it too.

The average republican is not super wealthy, of course, but they are manipulated and controlled by those who are.

They weren't raised right.

Protestantism.

Protestantism is Christianity but Jesus is Replaced with Capitalism. If you're rich, God has chosen you. If you're poor you have definitely committed every sin.

To help the poor is therefore a betrayal of God.

They pretend that its not a zero sum game but they act like it is a zero sum game.

Because we humans are social animals that like seeing others happy and dislike seeing others unhappy. Same goes for seeing animals.

Conservatives have convinced themselves or have been convinced by others that everyone is solely responsible for their own success. Or they pretend to believe this.

When they see pain in the world the only thought they can have is: This person did something wrong.

In reality meanwhile things aren't so easy. People have responsibility in achieving a happy life. But there are a myriad of factors that make life easier or harder. But you all probably know that.

I heard they love the poor when they vote against their own interests.

I would say the argument is that they feel they're paying more for people who don't deserve it. That the government and these businesses are constantly subsidizing by taking their pay cheque and handing it to people who refuse to work or decided to do drugs or making other bad life choices. The right tends to view things at an individual level whereas the left view things as a group. Both are right and wrong. If you're paid $60,000 a year and some goes to a safe injection site, more goes to some carbon tax that nobody is really tracking, more goes to some dark slush fund nobody knows about. Over the years we all just get bitter and angry

In my experience most poor people are their voting base who the fuck knows why

Same reason why you hate feminism. Bigotry.

They want people hating trans and gay people instead.

To feel better about their own pathetic life.