- 14 May 2019 22:41
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@The trigger,
Many Americans are hateful towards socialism. Americans tend to be very religious people, especially in the Midwest and in the former Confederate south, where socialism is hated very much. Americans are family oriented people. Americans also LOVE money, and this is where the hostility towards socialism really gets at.
Welfare exists to prevent domestic abuse without speaking against it on a massive scale (to not make the family institution look bad). Social security exists to make elders spend money as much as they can, so that companies of all sort can make money. Unemployment benefits, which really don't benefit people most of the time, exist to protect wage slaves from being homeless. Medicare is only for lower working class people, disabled people, and people with special status. Most working class occupants, like truck drivers, plumbers, or electricians, usually don't get it. Welfare in the States is mismanaged because EVERYTHING is mismanaged in the States. Americans love to WASTE!
Nazi Germany was not socialist. They wanted to privatize the public transportation system (trains, busing, subways, etc.). They also wanted to privatize the welfare system, and to reduce welfare benefits. Nazi Germany also supported domestic companies that are family oriented, to keep people under the family institution. Nazi Germany also desired to abolish common law, which gave total power to landlords, ruling husbands, and religious figures.
Venezuela is not socialist. Their housing is so short, that there are many households that have three generations under one roof, and that getting a divorce would still make one live with their ex due to a shortage of housing.
Many "socialists" in the States are not really socialists. Some are social democrats. Some are Christian "socialists" which have very little in common with scientific socialism. Some of them are anarchists. Some are just radical liberals who have no fucking clue what socialism is. And the CPUSA is NOT socialist.