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Here's a reality check, it all boils down to this:
Today's conservatives believe that it boils down to self sufficiency & hard work
Today's liberals believe it is our obligation to create opportunities for everyone
Close. I think. It's phrased to sound like liberals don't value hard work and sufficiency. We do. Very much. But we also know that that is pointless without an opportunity to use it.
That's where another disconnect occurs. Liberals believe that most people don't have any opportunities unless government steps in to essentially give them that opportunity, conservatives believe that every opportunity is out there for the taking without government help.
Also, liberals may value hard work, but they sure don't promote it. 2 years worth of unemployment checks, unions that ensure you do as little work as possible, making laziness as comfortable as possible. How does that promote hard work ethics?
Liberals tend to believe people who are unemployed would like very much to work, and would work, if they could, but that there are simply not enough jobs for everyone.
Unemployment checks are not meant to make laziness comfortable. They're meant to ensure that people who lose their jobs are able to keep a roof over their heads until they're able to find work again.
They also tend to reduce the severity of recessions, because those people are able to pay their rent, their utilities, buy food and clothes and etc. Otherwise the landlords, utility companies, grocery stores, and department stores all lose customers, which causes them to lose money, which causes them to lay more people off, which means they lose more customers, etc.