Are Democrats right about Government control?

Both sides of the American political spectrum are in favor of government control of commodities, the difference is that the Republicans want the government to enforce property rights for the rich and do nothing for the poor, while the Democrats also want to enforce property rights for the rich but grant the poor some necessities. It's not statists vs anarchists, it's people who want more hierarchy vs people who want less.

They keep testing us with things like COVID shutdowns, 15 minute cities, the climate hoax, restrictions on speech, etc. People are waking up to the bs, forcing the deep state to accelerate the agenda. This is only going to get crazier over the next couple of years.

You’re incredibly lucky you’ve never needed any assistance!

20 years ago I would have posted the same thing. But the economy and the world is a different place now, and it's not that they are OK, it is that an increasing population in a world that is not getting any bigger dictates this. When you were in your 20s, you could get a stable job in manufacturing and support a wife and 3 kids and a single family house. Now, in many places for a person with a median income, rent/mortgage alone would eat up more than half of their pay - and they have little control over that. Wages for middle class workers simply have not kept up with the cost of living increases. Not even close. It's not that they want to be reliant on the governement, it is that the cannot survive if the government does not provide some checks on the greedy (housing costs have little to do with demand from occupants, they are due to demand from investors). From a personal standpoint as a white male, I directly benefited from redline and school bussing programs in the 1970s, which exponentially increased the value of my parents' house, turning us from a family struggling to pay bills to one that could now afford property in a wealthy neighborhood. My dad retired a millionare not from salary earnings, but from increases in property value arising from racist housing policies from the 1970s.

Well if you don't want street lights, police, healthcare (yes even in the US) firemen, paved roads, a navy, an even vaguely educated population, safe (if not healthy) food, protected resources, and the ability to enforce property rights without killing someone, you don't need government control.

Otherwise, get used to it because it's called living in a civil society.

With all due respect, I think you're oversimplifying things by implying that this is a Democrat issue. Republicans have, at least until recently, participated, along with Democrats, in the debate and compromised about the extent of the proper role of Government with regard to providing services to the governed in exchange for their consent.

It may sound odd, but without rational and at least moderately well intentioned public servants talking sincerely and being willing to compromise and actively find common ground, I think our country will deteriorate and get worse. Democrats haven't historically been angels for sure, but I worry that the let's burn down the house Republican crowd's increasing influence will also encourage more of the same from those wanting to burn it down from the left as well as the right.

Has anyone watched any of the Man-in-the-street You Tube videos of people asking
Gen Z folks basic questions? If you do, you will see the future of our country, and you
will see why China, or just about any country, will be able to take us over.

There are hundreds of these videos. They are funny and sad at the same time.

Honestly it depends on what they're asking me to do DogMan, if its get my shots or mask up those are things I planned to do anyway. We're on top of hounding our doctors for the next round of boosters. By we, I mean my whole family.

I didn't join the military because I know I would question my orders. I'm not very good at being bossed around, but you know what?

It does depend on what my government and the medical community are asking from me. Gettiing vaccinated wasn't a big deal, although some dumbfucks said we'd be dead by now. Well invictus maneo.

I think the part that pisses me off the most about the reactions to my left wing beliefs is people think the schools brainwashed me into thinking this way and it's like I guess my teachers were largely of the left but what makes you think that I don't feel free to question what they taught me and reject their politics if I wanted to? I have freedom and am a free thinker, I just agree with what was taught.

Looks like it- I hate this new Authoritarianism.

It's actually the opposite. The more people's material needs are met, the more freedom they demand. That's why the freest countries in the world are Social Democracies. And of course, here in America, it's the Republicans that are banning books and trying to ban gender affirming care, even for adults.

I think we can only examine ourselves, and our own reactions to government control. If we are passive, and do nothing, then the fall of our nation is sure to follow.

A nation of sheep. Hopefully, I don't live long enough to see that come to pass.

You're a baby boomer. Did you somehow work for the GI Bill, or do you honestly think you didn't benefit from it?

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Bullshit.

In the US, we have each benefitted from all sorts of things for which we didn't work.

This has been going on for the past 30 years, and you're just now taking notice? 🤦‍♀️🙄