DO YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET?

from Merriam Webster::

de·serve verb \di-ˈzərv

transitive verb

: to be worthy of : merit 

I have often heard it said that voters who voted against Obama but ended up with the Teapartiers, deserve what they got.  This strikes me as a complete misunderstanding of the verb deserve.  It is too often used as 'deserving punishment', oddly, because it punishes the rest of us who are probably totally 'undeserving'..  

Common misuse of concepts and words  makes meaning difficult to comprehend..  "I could care less" is the opposite of what people usually intend.  They want to convey that they care the least possible.  It might be better  if they mean what they say, "I couldn't care less."

Another non-thought-out phrase is, "You made your bed, now lie in it."  That is fine if it refers to singular actions that effect that one person.  However,. if the decision was made about something that effects many it becomes useless.

"You deserve the very best."  Usually contrived by marketers.  In fact, this is a useless expression because the speaker is in no position to see that the very best is attainable for anyone.  This confuses the recipient who often also has a concept that the world should be 'fair'.  The right to fairness is another misconception. While our world would be an Eden if everything were fair and deserved, reality has never provided for that to be for all of us.  We need to shape our own world as much as possible but few of us find complete fairness and deserved merit rewarded appropriately..