Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on ""Are you stupid?" (C-SPAN)" video.

  1. hfontanez98 I am a little more empathetic. Not all of us win the sperm lottery and we all are impacted by our surrounding environment. I became good friends with a co-worker in my late teens and we grew up in quite different environments. I was fortunate to be raised in a 2 parent relatively stable middle class household. My friend wasn't as fortunate and grew up with his grandmother without much parental supervision. It played a big part of how our futures played out. I believe we should look out for the less fortunate especially if one is more successful. While you quoted JFK, I'll quote RFK, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Yeah, it's an idealist view and pragmatically, it's much harder to execute. It's a better world if we are our brother's (and sister's) keeper.
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  2. Politics is a hard game especially if you have forces going into opposite ways. The GOP has no incentive to provide health care for all of Americans. Health care is an economic issue which is in the breadbox of every American. If Americans don't have worry about health insurance coverage by employers, it gives them the freedom to take risks in their career.
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  3. hfontanez98 Actually, RFK is very relevant. After seeing extreme poverty in the south, RFK was very moved by it and made it a large conversation for his family. This is a good documentary about his family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_(film) I'm only a few years younger than you and I started working when I was 11 (newspaper route making $80 / month). And yes, my ideas about empathy are very broad.
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  4. Joseph Coleman My point was you can be hardworking your whole life and still be empathic to the challenges of the less fortunate. lol, how about shoveling snow or mowing neighbors lawns? Wash dishes for minimum wage: I did that through high school.
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