It's not just conservatives, I also see many libs believe in this shit. In addition, they really believe in the "Just World Hypothesis" (i.e. that the good will eventually be rewarded and that the evil will eventually be punished). I just can't bring myself to believe that the evil will "get what they deserve," at least in this world, after everything I've seen. I don't know, how do others here deal with the brainworms of personal responsibility and the just world hypothesis?
bruh, a huge amount of the world (something above 50% but below 75~%)* lives in poverty, did billions of people make the decision to abdicate their personal responsibility and just live in miserable squalor because they fucking like it!?
*https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/nearly-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day
It's not that the individual decisions people make in their lives don't matter, because they definitely do, but the problem is that some people have absolutely garbage choices that will lead them to the same shitty outcomes regardless of what choices they make, even if a lot of those were objectively good choices given their circumstances
These people assume most of the world outside of America is a pit of filth infested with genetically inferior people who don't matter. Or they'll just shrug. Or they'll do an equally disgusting thing of venerating poverty in foreign countries by connecting it to stronger communities or spirituality or something. Most Americans believe rest of the world only exists for tourism or treats, or that it doesn't exist at all.
Ah, but you see, those people hate freedooomssszzz and if they just colour revolutioned their government they'd be allowed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps by signing an indenture contract with United Fruit Company.