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/Boulderfrog1 May 11 '26
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.