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It's like anytime you bring up universal healthcare or basic income they come out the woodworks screaming evil socialists!!! I'm just confused what is so evil about wanting to help society? We already are socialist on our police, fire depts, schools (except college), roads, etc but not certain others.
Where are the regressives learning to love socialism from?
It's like anytime you bring up universal healthcare or basic income they come out the woodworks screaming evil socialists!!! I'm just confused what is so evil about wanting to help society? We already are socialist on our police, fire depts, schools (except college), roads, etc but not certain others.
That's not necessarily the issue.
Firstly, I think it's debatable to say that things like the fire department are examples of socialism. Socialism is the governments (or community) owning the means of production. This is generally understood as things that produce. Fire departments don't so much produce things as they do provide a service, a public service. In the same way, police departments and roads act as public utilities, no producers of consumer goods. Where as socialism would be something like the government taking over oil refineries so that they own and profit off of them, paying the works justly, either as determined by the workers democratically or by autocrats.
Let's set that aside and say the fire department is socialism. Republicans aren't necessarily against socialism; they're against federal socialism. All the things you mentioned are funded by and primary managed by state and local governments. Most conservatives think government subsidized healthcare should be a state problem, not a federal problem. I even know some conservatives who do want state legislature to pursue a universal healthcare plan. They just don't want the federal government doing it.
A “free market” is not a natural state of affairs. One could be created, but only with rules, i.e., regulation. When Libertarians talk about a “free market,” what they really mean is an unregulated one. Markets are created by regulations. No regulations = no markets.
Free market is absolutely the most natural state of affairs. A lefty scared of it doesn't make it unnatural.
What is wrong with socialism? Ask anyone that lived in the Soviet Union.
Russia-bashing has been ingrained in American culture since the Bolshevik Revolution 100 years ago — along with union-bashing and worker-bashing.
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Communism and socialism are NOT the same thing. Please look it up.
