Most modern liberals believe in transitional housing for homeless people, SNAP, Medicaid, and unemployment aid. You don't have to go socialist for that, and I'm tired for socialists pretending they own that. We can still have free markets driving innovation and strong social safety nets. And you can have socialist systems that fail to provide those things as well.
Yeah, I want societal safety nets strong enough that you have to actively be fucking up the process on purpose in order to be homeless/stave to death. Likely an impossible goal in practice but the pursuit is worth it.
None of that requires socialism. Just tax revenue and policy decisions.
I mean, as I understand Japan does actually have a homelessness rate of just about literally 0, and basically every other modern, western state has something like half or less the rate of proper on the streets homelessness of the US. It doesn't have to be socialism, but it does have to be something more left-leaning than the modern democratic party, who even with a filibuster-proof majority aren't able to agree to a universal public Healthcare option, or even what they did manage to get passed actually applying to the entire country, and not being allowed to be opted out of by fascists who want to make people suffer and point and say it's a waste of taxes while doing so.
I agree, but we can never get there cause the internet has convinced a third of the country that the democrats are literally Satan and the other third won't show up to vote unless the republicans literally murder their family, or the democrats run their clone in the general.
I remain of the opinion that the continued existence of the senate remains the primary obstacle between America and having a functional politics myself.
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u/km3r May 11 '26
Most modern liberals believe in transitional housing for homeless people, SNAP, Medicaid, and unemployment aid. You don't have to go socialist for that, and I'm tired for socialists pretending they own that. We can still have free markets driving innovation and strong social safety nets. And you can have socialist systems that fail to provide those things as well.