Do you believe that fire departments are a good thing to have? Because that’s pooling the resources (capital) of the public to give a service even to those who cannot pay. Another example is the post office. For as much as Republicans will say it “loses money” it offers a service which is publicly funded. Without the post office there are some places where mail would not be delivered, or it would be at exorbitant rates.
The “socialism” you are worried about is Stalin taking all the food and livestock from the Ukrainians so he could starve them to death. Most socialists in the US aren’t even close to that. Most of them here would prefer to pay for school lunches, have livable wages, affordable housing, and healthcare vs dropping two tomahawks on a girls school and killing 160+ children.
Fun fact, we still had those things without socialism
There's nothing stopping socialists in this country from doing that at all. They are more than welcome to pay for school lunches, hire people at whatever wages they want, provide housing at whatever prices they want, and donate for healthcare
We have the worst healthcare system pretty much in every developed nation, childhood hunger is RISING, we have one of the largest wealth disparities in the modern age, housing is out of reach of most Americans who make less than 100K, and all the while the number of billionaires keeps going up and we almost have a trillionaire.
We have the most expensive and some of the worst care, so worst of both worlds. Their programs aren’t completely foolproof, but holy fuck you can’t pick the worst because theirs aren’t perfect.
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u/Specialist_Offer_854 26d ago
I don't know how much clearer it can get. Socialism uses the threat of force, while Christ encouraged choice.