Ron Johnson tells high school students they have no "right" to food, shelter, healthcare

[Tanuki]

and that those are "privileges" and "limited resources" for those with the "skills" to "afford" them. (Video clip at link)

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159493605030284&id=27357795283&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2Fdv50EcTrzv&_rdr

[ck4829]

1. What right does Ron Johnson have to my tax dollars again?

I didn't vote for him, he seems like a fraud, and I don't think he is a legitimate senator.

[MattP]

2. Fiengold is a great man and every time this yahoo talks i miss him more in the Senate

[Chasstev365]

3. The Senate election in 2016 was stolen!

[Hortensis]

4. That is a philosophy, definitely libertarian, but held by many conservatives,

notably to an extreme degree only by some. But that people have a duty to take care of themselves is part of most belief systems, including liberal.

By far most people, including many conservatives, believe that citizens of an advanced wealthy nation do have at least a limited right to food, shelter and healthcare. The disagreement used to lie mainly in how far that right extends.

The problem is that the Kool-Aid fed to the right for decades has created a conviction in many that: A large percentage of adults (instead of a small one) are refusing to work because they don't have to due to safety net programs. And that most of the problems of society can be laid at the feet of this unwillingness to work.

This extreme misconception is of course a critical part of the ultraconservative anti-taxers' plot to destroy all progressive programs. By inculcating the belief that refusal to work is widespread, they've split a dominant ideology within which liberal and conservative legislators could find common ground into two incompatible belief systems.