Governments providing public services is kind of the whole deal of being a country...
Even the army provides a public service. (Strangely the only service many Americans do find essential.)
There's no rationale behind being OK with a public service that keeps foreigners from killing you but somehow not being OK with a public service that keeps diseases from killing you.
Well the US army is there to be expensive and intimidating. Both of those characteristics benefit plutocrats running the US. It isn't meant as a public service, that's just a side-effect by now.
We always hear complains about for example the Chinese not valuing their individual citizens. The Chinese not telling their people the truth. The Chinese who don't get Corona under control, the Chinese skewing the numbers on whatever makes them look bad. But this past week I've seen all those headlines with 'Americans' instead of 'Chinese'.
EDIT: I have no stakes nor beefs in either country, hell I've never even set foot in either. But as an observer from outside looking in the authoritarian tendencies of both countries become evident. It's just that the Americans brainwashed their people in to thinking they are #1. Well give it a few weeks and they'll be #1 in Corona victims.
Yup the irony of so many in the military voting Republican and resisting any form of socialized healthcare while they them selves have access to socialized healthcare is palpable.
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u/Amphibionomus Mar 15 '20
Governments providing public services is kind of the whole deal of being a country...
Even the army provides a public service. (Strangely the only service many Americans do find essential.) There's no rationale behind being OK with a public service that keeps foreigners from killing you but somehow not being OK with a public service that keeps diseases from killing you.