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This is not discovering empathy, it is just selfishness framed in the language of empathy. It is not advocacy for social programs, it is using the language of communal sharing to complain the he isn't getting the benefits of it. It's not like he's going to actually do anything to restore Medicaid in his state. He's just going to get press for himself and maybe plug a GoFundMe.
Of course his child doesn't deserve any of this, but it's important to understand that reactionaries build their views around self-interested wish fulfillment (including scapegoats to massage their egos).
I think it's useful for some people to understand that communal sharing and collective action are in our rational self-interest.
But, this person isn't really doing that. He will learn absolutely nothing from this and will not apply it to anything else, ever.
“Individualists” have a real bad habit of being more collectivist than even us godless commies.
What is hierarchy but the ultimate display of collectivism? You have your haves that lay around and sniff their own farts and get to enjoy endless privilege, and us lowly poo-people have nots who have to suffer and toil for the haves luxury…if you’re lucky enough for the haves to choose you to have you work for them, because the alternative is social murder, and porko’s clucking about “thinning the herd”.
Their individualism is so expansive that it covers everyone as being subordinate to them. The help are mere extensions of the only real people in the world i.e. rich people.