Mastodawn

The radical left

That’s because “conservative” isn’t an ideology, and it never has been. Conservativism has two core beliefs: “conservatives” refers to a specific group of people defined by common traits, and those are the good people. Each tranche of conservatives defines their own identity, and then they define whatever they want as “conservative values.”

This German guy on the train probably is very conservative. He is not more progressive than an American conservative. He has simply defined his group of conservatives to include the people who benefit from universal healthcare. He sees the value to his own group, and so he supports it.

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ZombiFrancis Mar 14

They’d also be able to express how they believe an immigrant doesn’t deserve healthcare. Either that they deserve the healthcare of their homecountry, or that they aren’t a part of ‘everyone’, be that German, or otherwise.

Without any congitive dissonance.

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Grandwolf319

Another take is that they believe in inherit hierarchy that must be conserved.

In this situation, being German is very high on the ladder, so even if they accept immigrants, they would only do so because there are plenty of foreigners that would be lower.

It’s less about where you draw the exclusion line, and more about that their entire worldview is a pyramid in which only a few groups can have a good life if that is built on the shoulders of a larger, lower group.

This is why it’s not about healthcare, it’s about equality. Even if you convince them that everyone deserves healthcare, they would automatically believe that since they are in the top group, they have to get a better kind of healthcare.

This is also why they would never see someone that is fully integrated as true Germans, cause even within the top group, there is a structure.

And of course, their worse fear is being in the bottom group.