86% support WELFARE. Welfare is a small portion of 'socialism', to equate the two is plain ridiculous.
How can you support welfare and not socialism? EASY, give broke people money when they need it but don't let them stay on it, job test people on welfare, don't let mothers stay out of work receiving it for 7 years after the birth of their child, don't buy assets and companies, don't mandate insurance, don't put up red tape, don't take away a myriad of personal choices, don't make drug laws, don't require lengthy building consent processes, don't interfere with the economy, don't direct public assets, don't tax precious resources, don't remove the bulk of property rights, don't take control of people's finances regarding health and education etc.
Bad off in bad times =/= Lifestyle welfare (which is a fucking social epidemic).
Welfare and the Right are not mutually exclusive by any means, welfare is a part of most right wing systems to the extent that is deemed necessary; Non parasitic welfare is fine, it's when it becomes a massive debt wrenching burden that things need to change, and FAST.
The GOP are generally assholes and idiots (although this applies more to the voters and the media than the actual politicians who on a whole are proportionately more reasonable than the people they represent - Though some of them too are complete assholes - I'm looking at YOU teabaggers), we all know that, they seem to have no fucking clue what 'socialism' even means, The Dems are centre-right at and slightly authoritarian (slightly less right and slightly less authoritarian than the GOP), they barely even qualify as progressive or liberal, let alone 'socialists', it could be because they lack the balls to do it, but I really think they aren't nearly as ideologically liberal as the voting population thinks they are or wants them to be.
Shame about their fiscal recklessness and tendency to mandate mundanity, because inn terms of social liberties they are the better of the two parties.
How can you support welfare and not socialism? EASY, give broke people money when they need it but don't let them stay on it, job test people on welfare, don't let mothers stay out of work receiving it for 7 years after the birth of their child, don't buy assets and companies, don't mandate insurance, don't put up red tape, don't take away a myriad of personal choices, don't make drug laws, don't require lengthy building consent processes, don't interfere with the economy, don't direct public assets, don't tax precious resources, don't remove the bulk of property rights, don't take control of people's finances regarding health and education etc.
Bad off in bad times =/= Lifestyle welfare (which is a fucking social epidemic).
Welfare and the Right are not mutually exclusive by any means, welfare is a part of most right wing systems to the extent that is deemed necessary; Non parasitic welfare is fine, it's when it becomes a massive debt wrenching burden that things need to change, and FAST.
The GOP are generally assholes and idiots (although this applies more to the voters and the media than the actual politicians who on a whole are proportionately more reasonable than the people they represent - Though some of them too are complete assholes - I'm looking at YOU teabaggers), we all know that, they seem to have no fucking clue what 'socialism' even means, The Dems are centre-right at and slightly authoritarian (slightly less right and slightly less authoritarian than the GOP), they barely even qualify as progressive or liberal, let alone 'socialists', it could be because they lack the balls to do it, but I really think they aren't nearly as ideologically liberal as the voting population thinks they are or wants them to be.
Shame about their fiscal recklessness and tendency to mandate mundanity, because inn terms of social liberties they are the better of the two parties.
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