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Where do you live that has the federal government paying for your firefighters?
It's still a socialist system even if it's on the state level. Everyone has to pay into the system to fund schools even if they never have a need for them. Everyone has to pay into the system to fund a fire department even if you never use it.
so why do people keep saying how other countries are better to live in, then nitpick only the "good" socialist parts without regard to everything that isn't "good" for them?
Perhaps those other, foreign systems are better overall?
And before you say, "Move there", know that I've tried; it's extremely difficult from the US.
I honestly thought socialism was good when I was younger because everyone called things like funding public transit, higher education, and healthcare Socialism. I know better now, but when you attempt to dismiss popular government programs as socialist you're going to get many people who think socialism is a good thing.
It's still a socialist system even if it's on the state level. Everyone has to pay into the system to fund schools even if they never have a need for them. Everyone has to pay into the system to fund a fire department even if you never use it.
And?
That doesn’t negate the point that many aren’t federal programs.
Additionally, it better to have them locally funded and run.
I honestly thought socialism was good when I was younger because everyone called things like funding public transit, higher education, and healthcare Socialism. I know better now, but when you attempt to dismiss popular government programs as socialist you're going to get many people who think socialism is a good thing.
If you like the programs they are not socialist but if you don't, then they are? How is funding public transit not socialist? Many who fund it, never use it.
They want it when someone else is footing the bill. If they have to pay their own way, forget it.
Millennial here I have no problem paying more in taxes since I am doing well for myself. I have no problem doing a little more help everyone out I am not blinded by my own greed.
Please research the different versions of socialism, paying attention in particular to "Fabian socialism" and terms like permeation, gradual transition, evolutionary socialism, socialism of the elite, using democracy to create socialism, etc.
There is "Nineteen Eighty Four" socialism (which, by your criticisms and spell check requests, you think is the only proper kind), and there is "Brave New World" socialism. The former is the jackbooted "socialism by revolution, maintained by direct force and paranoia" version people associate with the Nazis and Soviet communists, while the latter is "socialism by evolution, addicting people to the own comfort and dependencies, gradually creating a society totally in thrall to government" that resembles most modern welfare states in Europe and the United States, albeit at different stages.
From Huxley's 1962 speech at Berkeley:
There is conjecture about Huxley being an official member of the Fabian Society, but his writings and speeches give us insight to the theory of gradualism and permeation, of evolutionary socialism, where the enslaved love their enslavement. Malcolm X, around the same time, was on TV explaining the house/field negro theory, which fit exactly into Huxley's "malevolent revolution" ideas.
There's more to the socialism discussion than rigid, pedantic comparisons to late 1930s Germany and 1940s Russia. There's a much larger discussion of governments always evolving towards tyranny, and tyranny wearing many different masks.
Your understanding of different types of Socialism is impressive. What you fail to do here is categorize the type of Socialism that is being defined by the billionaires, the right wing media, and the right wing think tanks.
Did you notice that in five subsequent pages of posts no one discusses your post except me. These Republicans believe that FOX news is an adequate substitute for education, science, and economics, and that is dangerous.
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