I think Republicans think "lift up the poor" means "kick 'em to the curb" because that's the only kind of assistance they think is appropriate for the poor, the sick, and the weakest among us. I mean they are the ones who still think slavery is a good idea (even though they will whine "but Republican party ended slavery!" ) and that beating, imprisoning, or just plain shooting someone is the best way to incentivize anyone to do anything. Unless you're a struggling billionaire, dead beat tax fraud, harmful polluting industry, or one of those murder/death/kill industries - in which case throw trillions at them.

Jesus allegedly said something like "Render unto Cesar what is Cesar's", Republicans hear "Render everything to the seizers" ie. the 1% who seize everything by exercising the power and wealth that the rigged system lets them exercise to do so and further rig the system in their interests.

First of all, Jesus was a slow brain. Don't do anything he said. He cannot keep his promise for 2,000 years that he would return. Where is he? How did the great Governor, my hero Pontius Pilate squished him like a bug and the father, God did no shit?

Don't lift anybody, just make it a leveled playing field, a just and equatable environment. That is the spirit of capitalism. Lifting a certain group of people in a society in not the government's job. Collecting taxes from one class and giving to another is socialism. The government should make the environment conducive to progress and protect us from threats.

Don't do favoritism of the rich like the Republicans do or favoritism of the poor like the Democrats do. Both are pitting one class against another.

Among other things ... I think Republicans are Hypocrites..

Republicans will say anything to try to scare people into voting for them. I would guess that probably 2/3 or 3/4 of our population cannot tell you what socialism is and isn''t. They just know that the term has a supposed negative connotation since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.

But you see, Jesus can lift up the poor with his magic. If the socialist lift up the poor, it's going to effect my bank account, is their logic.