I was talking to a Polish friend about Polish politics. He said in Poland, like in the US, they had both conservative and liberal policies - but that the topics for debate were different. In Poland, the conservatives agreed with the liberals on things like healthcare funding, supporting higher education, and funding transit projects. All these things were non-issues in Polish politics.

“Well,” says I, “Then I’m confused. If the conservatives and liberals agree on all those things, then what makes them different? What makes the conservatives, conservative?”

“Ah, you see,” he says, “They’re racist. That’s the whole thing - they’re just racist.”

I’m convinced the reason the US doesn’t have universal anything is because ‘then the blacks would get it’.

That’s honestly it. Right wing Americans don’t want other people to get access to things. They think rights are a pie. If ‘they’ get a slice, I’ll end up with less of it. Rather it’s actually a bakery… You pay into it and you just get pie.