A great education , lowcost college , lowcost or free healthcare , food benefits and free lunches for children , free birth control . all of these things have been offered and eschewed because lazy people , ghetto people , sinful people are the only ones who take advantage of these things . They view themselves as hardworking people who subscribe to the myth that things will get better if they practice self reliance and pull themselves up by their bootstraps . Yet it hasn ' t worked in decades and still they cling to this idea that somehow America will only be great if the white , Christian , working man can somehow strike down gays , affirmative action , welfare queens , and hold onto guns for the day they have to fight tyranny . Never understanding that the tyrants are their bosses , their elected officials , and their mega church pastors . Where do you even start with that ? I don ' t have the time , the will , or the patience to teach people what they should have learned from elementary school and forward . I don ' t have the ability to change policy , produce better textbooks and educational standards , or to make them realize that the things they vote against are the things that would really benefit their lives . I have many , many relatives who subscribe to this mindset and have had many loving , calm discussions with them . Nothing has changed , because they don ' t want it . They ' re like the person who is a complete asshole , yet believes that everyone else is the problem in their lives .