All the white kids who didn't get replaced will thank him.

Yeah their kids lol

Specifically, breaking the just world illusion is unpleasant and exhausting because it removes the only reassurance they have that they are good people.

If they prosper in a just world then they are good. If you convince them the world is unjust then they have to grapple with being an awful person who has done and said awful things.

It's virtually impossible to convince someone of that

Oh yup, they love that circular reasoning bias, eh? The cart is supposed to go before the horse. They are rich because god wants them to be. The poor are poor because god is judging them. Pay no attention to the suffering, or you're going against god!

Oh to start teaching philosophy and epistemology to children. Then maybe fewer would grow up with such harmful toxic dogmatic ideologies riddled with this circular reasoning fallacy.

Trump raped his wife* and became president.

*technically not rape because the law defined rape in a limited way at the time, kind of like how husbands were exempt in the past

They have never been affected by conditions that lead to poverty and it shows.

But if you go somewhere like Idaho or Mississippi... They're all fucking poor!! Everyone is poor! Everyone lives hand to mouth and depends on social safety nets like this. But if you're proper homeless then fuck you, no you don't deserve any help?

Blows my mind how entire self contained societies can all equally experience this kind of hardship and then instead of "I don't want anyone else to suffer like we had to", they instead conclude "I had to suffer like this, therefore everyone must suffer like this".

They have never been affected by conditions that lead to poverty and it shows.

You mean being lazy? Of course not. They'll be the first to brag about how they work overtime or have more than 1 job to pay the bills.

/s, in case that want obvious.

A lot of it has to do with an inflated view of one's self and persecusion complex. Studies have shown that the more conservative one is the better off one thinks they will be. When the whole inheritance tax was being talked about all these poor conservtives thought some day they will be so well off the tax would affect them when in reality their lifetime gross income wouldn't be enough if they saved it all. The whole "work hard and you will get everything" idea is burned into their brains inspite of reality.

When you then look at any achievement by these same people they make it out to be some crazy effort on their side. All hardships were the extreme and targeting them, in their warped view. They don't realize their struggles were the same as everyone else and they were helped out in many ways that no one ever picks themselves up by their bootstraps.

So they have this "my life was the worst" and "i pulled myself up with no help" view of their lives that everyone else is just shit. In reality they are so delusional that even common decency is forign to them. Pile on that many are Christians if poor and narcissist and sociopaths if rich the complex grow many fold.

emboldened AND empowered