Romney'd never say that about for example venture capital vultures, but the moment he thinks student athletes might live ostentatiously, he becomes a socialist

what could it be, what differentiator does he see between student athletes and venture capital vultures, what what what
Conservatism in America will tell you in every utterance if you have ears to hear it; they believe anything of value they possess was earned, and anything of value anyone else possesses was stolen or bestowed.

It's how you can tell who they consider "them" and who they don't.
And Romney's even sort of taking the right side of this! He thinks athletes should be able to profit off their labor. Good for him!

But then he blithely imposes restrictions on them he'd angrily resist for himself, and you can tell he thinks this is a license he's bestowing.
Somehow this little fella thinks what he has is earned.
You can see it in the way conservatives react to NFL players who kneel to protest brutal injustice that's gone unaddressed for generations.

Without the players, there'd be no league. Yet still the expected posture is silent gratitude.

Everything they have is considered a gift.
They'll treat this as an equivalence to Trump's clear daily public corruption, and media will parrot the narrative unexamined.

What he steals is earned.

What she earned is theft.

You can see it in elderly voters who believe that they earned their social security and Medicare (they did) ...

... but oppose opening it up for others or reallocating budgets to keep the programs healthy.

What they have is presumed earned.

What others get is presumed theft.
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