Bob Republican - Fear Scarcity Model And Enough Pie For Everyone
I'm sharing a post that beautifully illustrates a point. The Post comes from Facebook "Dean Withers" group(which I love) and was posted by "Borasmy Ung." The post is well written and illustrates a point which I want to talk about. Read this if you dare and then read on cause I think its worth considering.
Note....I am changing the actor from "Sue" to "Bob" (its a universal person). Yet Sue is out there too....
It's noon and Bob needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Bob's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Bob's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Bob has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Bob and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Bob is home from work. he plans to visit his fathis this evening at his farm home in the country. he gets in his car for the drive. his car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.
he arrives at his childhood home. his generation was the third to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose whise it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.
he is happy to see his fathis, who is now retired. his fathis lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Bob wouldn't have to.
Bob gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Bob enjoys throughout his day. Bob agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm self-made and believe everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
So what was the point? The point is that people who think from a model of scarcity and fear, who think that helping each other is bad and that societies operate in a vacuum, aren’t thinking it through. Every person uses roads, utilities, schools, libraries, grocery stores, hospitals, doctors, parks, event spaces, parking lots, and sidewalks, and all of it works because we work together.
Yet in this country, we have the rich, the ultra-rich, and even beyond the ultra-rich: billionaires. And none of them pay taxes. I’ve covered how they do it over and over. I’m not making shit up; it’s a fact of life. And we have companies like Tesla that pay no taxes. (Tesla paid ZERO federal tax in 2025. Look it up.) I’ve covered this too. And we have a government that gives (GIVES!) billions to other countries. Your money. Your tax money.
So next time you think, “Oh, the libtards,” or “Hey, they want socialism,” think twice about what they’re really asking for.
How about we stop giving money to countries that are doing bad things? How about we take that money, and other money, and start caring for each other? Free healthcare (like other countries already have). Equal rights for EVERYONE, transgender and cisgender. The freedom to have a gender marker that matches the gender you live, which is not unreasonable. How about religion stays out of government and public spaces, as the Constitution and the letters say? How about fair taxes for ALL and an SSA that works? How about wages that ALL people can live on? And laws that control the use of AI, deepfakes, bots, and bot swarms that are being used to lie to people, sway elections, and cause chaos. How about we focus on our country and build infrastructure? And how about free college and higher education for those who want to go? Other countries do it. These are not bad things.
These things ARE the opposite of fear and scarcity. The model I’m talking about is one of “there is enough” and “if we run out, we make more.” There is enough pie for everyone.
So take this away:
What world do you want to live in????
The Answer... should define how you vote and what you expect and demand of people in positions of privilege.
These people should represent ALL of us. We are stronger with diversity, and we are stronger when we are united, not divided.
