Thread by @Gitabushi

Brainfertilizer's/Gitabushi's 3rd Law:
Tough Love is the only *TRUE* compassion

This one is kind of self-explanatory.
But I'll explain it anyway.

Any assistance is a crutch.
Any assistance makes it easier for people to stay in a bad situation.
Democrats talk about Compassion a lot. It is ALWAYS using your money in *their* name to buy votes.

There is NO END to the number of problems they can solve with just a little bit more of your money.

But the truth is never simple.

There will always be homeless people, no matter how much money you throw at it.
Education doesn't improve with more money at it, because what matters is the students' commitment to learning.

The University of Hard Knocks (must read) spells this out *explicitly*:
You will continue to have painful collisions with reality until you learn how reality actually works.
amazon.com/University-Har…

So helping people actually ensures they will have painful collisions with reality again in the future. And now they expect to get bailed out, so they might even continue to seek out painful collisions in hopes of getting bailed out.

The only TRUE compassion is to give people the skills, the knowledge, and the plan to negotiate real life with concepts that really work.

The federal govt thought it was within its responsibility to tell us how to eat.
And so we have obesity, because the govt gave us REALLY bad information in the food pyramid.
(Happy People Don't Vote Democrat, right?)

So why can't the govt tell us the RIGHT way to have a decently successful life?

Learn to delay gratification
Get an education
Get a job
Get married
Get a House/Have Children
STAY married (don't cheat, work on loving your spouse)

And do these IN THIS EXACT ORDER (house/children can be in either order)

Do this & you'll 99% likely to be at least middle class.

That chart should be posted in every school, in every bus stop shelter, in every state and federal govt office.

Instead, govt is currently telling people that you CAN'T succeed if you are a minority because of white supremacy.

This guarantees failure and misery.

Happy People Don't Vote Democrat, eh?

Welfare is supposedly compassionate. It keeps people from starving.
Instead, in reality, all it does is make poverty just *barely* comfortable enough to be endured, so people don't have to clean up their lives and get jobs to support themselves.

And all things being equal, maybe the US is rich enough to have a completely idle poverty class...so why not?

Because one *fundamental* aspect of human nature is that we want to improve. We want to be a little better off than we were last year.
Govt assistance prevents that.

When you are on govt assistance and you want a little more money to do something special, or buy a special gift, or get some new tech, what can you do?

Can you get more money by being MORE idle? Can you not work harder to get more?

Of course not.

The govt decides how much you get, and it doesn't change unless/until they adjust for inflation.

So people on welfare turn to illegal activities to get the extras they want, to get the sense that their lives are a little better than last year.

Better by FAR that we teach people the path to success and slash govt assistance to the bare minimum for those are actually incapable of taking care of themselves.

Obviously, we can't just do this overnight. We've gotten things pretty bad.

But work requirements for welfare actually did a good job of encouraging people to get off welfare and start taking care of themselves, and welfare rolls shrunk.

Which is why Obama eliminated any requirement to work or look for a job.

And welfare rolls skyrocketed again.
HPDVD.

We need to stop telling people that failure and unhappiness are OTHER people's faults.
We need to tell people that failure and unhappiness and dissatisfaction and whatever is THEIR OWN FAULT.
It's 99% likely to be true, and encourages figuring out for yourself how to fix things.

And even in the cases where it isn't true, it still gives people the message that they *can* influence what happens to them in life.

Same with education.
Same with employment.
Same with promotions.

You don't do people favors by lowering standards. You just ensure they don't have the skills for the *next* level of advancement.

Be tough on people.

Tough love is the only TRUE compassion, because it pushes people to learn for themselves what actually works.