Today at 9:26 AM
I continue to find it interesting and of note that this party of " peace and healing" is the one who wants lists made and revenge taken on Trump supporters. Not sure how it is exactly he has harmed all these people they allege he has wronged. You don't like him fine I can see that, he offended you thats fine I can see that too. I don't see where he has targeted or actually moved against any American citizen or group. The closest to that is a few usually misconstrued or incompletely publicized statements.
As to the allure of socialism I think it is the belief that things become free and that the rich pay more than the poor. No personal responsibility, the Govt will take care of you. This has been proven false time and again however most only read Facebook posts and google headlines not history books. Nor do they have the life experience or common sense to realize nothing in this life is free.
I heard someone talking the other day that America should give every person above the age of 18 a set amount a month and do away with all other entitlements. If you want to have a well paying job, then your entitlement will just be icing on the cake, if you get laid off well no unemployment you just keep getting that same check which should cover necessities. At first I thought "no way" but after listening I think it might be the best option. He explained that if you cut all other entitlements that this would actually save money. With the current system a single mom can be rewarded for having more children in the form of more entitlements, in most places those are the people having alot of kids partly due to the monetary value and partly because of no personal responsibility because they're not gonna have to worry about how to support that kid. If everyone got the same amount no matter how many kids you had to support then that might cut that out. This would also keep the politicians from pandering to certain people by promising more entitlements. I found it very interesting, I don't know the math on it but if it saved money it'd be worth looking at because there's no way we're getting all the people who are on entitlements that shouldn't be off of them, it's went on for way too long.
Me personally, I think if someone has a kid and by a certain time they're not able to support it themselves without government assistance, they should have to be sterilized so they don't keep spitting out kids they can't support. Same goes for these moms that keep having drug babies, make them get fixed after the first time. Don't tell me it's their right and then make me pay for it. I know in the area of Arkansas I grew up in, there's men that have 15 or more kids by different women and don't claim any of them, at least on paper, so the moms can get entitlements. These men need to be fixed also so they don't keep reproducing bastard children. And these kids for the most part go on to live the same lifestyle as their parents.