Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: What led you to socialism? [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)That's where you realize that all the horror stories about socialism are fantasies. US has some crazy fantasies going on, for instance there are still rural areas where they believe America has lots of covert communists, that communists by nature are covert. But then you talk to people from overseas, who had friends who were communists. How did they know? Because they were proud card carrying members of the communist party, just like a member of a regular party here.
At a deeper level, I just don't think you can be successful in a vacuum, eating steak while children starve as you put it. Real success has to occur in a social context that brings others up, and the best socialist systems can foster that.
Also, socialized medicine saved my bacon when I was really poor, Washington State Basic Health.