The Reactionary Libertarian/ Tea faith as regards social justice is conceal, carry, and stand your ground. The Liberal faith in social justice means preventing stand your ground with education, housing, and employment.
At the heart of the matter, the right wing does not accept humanism in any of its forms--and by humanism I mean the movement that developed in renaissance Europe. I cannot imagine any of the right wing posters agreeing with John Donne's concern for people beyond his own kith and kin. Nor can I see the Tea/GOP and their ilk endorsing the lines, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. . . ."
from Meditation 17
--LL
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I can imagine these mopes with a lifeboat from the Titanic machine gunning those in the water with the slogan: "You should have saved your money and traveled first class. Tough cookies!"
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