Bork
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Public schools are generally only bad in poor areas. Why? Supply and demand.Using a city's infrastructure to prove that socialism exists in the United States is not accurate. However, I think a better analogy for comparison purposes would be to compare American public schools to private alternatives. State run public schools would be the more "socialist" option between the two. They impose regulations on who can attend which school based on proximity
Okay, that was an odd yet funny analogy you made. The one thing you mentioned in your post was "too much socialism" that made me want to bring up an important point. When is too much...too much? It's only been quite recent that people are now calling our social welfare state a form of socialism. I don't know the timeline but people, especially Americans, were not using this term in such a carefree manner seven to ten years ago. Now you have people claiming that all these Nordic and Scandinavian countries are socialist successes. That is, flat out, incorrect. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, etc tried it and their economies were going down the drain. It wasn't until after they gravitated back to a free market that they became the economic successes we see today. It was hugely disappointing to see Bernie Sanders state in a speech how he wanted Denmark's version of socialism for the US. He, like so many others on the Left, are very misinformed.
I read an article just a few days ago on this topic. The author made what I thought was a more applicable analogy. He compared state run public schools to private schools. And if you guessed it already, public schools were the socialist option. It's funded by the state and the state designates districts and students are typically required to attend a school based on where they live (proximity). By and large, public schools are horrible options for students and their grades and lack of development are painfully evident across the country. Especially when you compare the results to students who are fortunate enough to attend private schools. So for those who want to dismiss "flat earthers" like me by saying, "Well! Roads, schools infrastructure owned by the state are all serve as proof that socialism exists!!" Just look at the quality public state runned institutions like public schools and the results they yield. Or public transit which is state run and is horribly unreliable. Would you rather own your own car or take the bus? Would you send your own kids to public or private school. I've lived in major cities throughout the country during my life. There has never been a public school I ever thought I'd like to send my kids to. They're, for the most part, shitholes.
Lastly, I just wanted to point out that I've lived in a very progressive city in the PNW. I had no idea what the locals were like until after having lived there for awhile and it was nauseating, to say the least. Radical liberals always talk about "democratic socialism." They adore BLM which is a marxist bullshit, hypocritical organization. No surprise there. But they think championing a false cause makes them look all woke and that's why they do it. They talk about the evil white patriarchy and vilify white men as casually as people talk about the weather. It's been my experience that people who promote and use the world socialism hate America and the American flag. They are obsessed with preaching their agenda and far as American culture goes, it's evil and wrong and it needs a complete revamping. They're obsessed with identity politics, intersectionality politics, race and affirmative action. They refuse to listen to opposing viewpoints and will shut you down immediately and force you out of the group. By the way, that's the basic tenet of fascism; suppression of opposition. It's dictatorial and that's why I don't want socialism of any kind nor will I ever support the use of that word. I've seen it up close and suffered through it don't want any part of it.
Extrapolating the word socialism from the word social is almost as bad as doing the same with communism/community. Hell, why not just start saying that we're communistic since we're all a community? How absurd does that sound? At the rate we're going maybe this is what we'll be disputing in another twenty years in political forms.
Poor people don’t pay enough money in property taxes to fund schools. Districts with higher property taxes attract better and more qualified candidates than districts without.
We live in a wealthy area. Our public schools are ranked among the best in the country because our property taxes are through the roof. It isn’t uncommon to see 12k-24k-36k+ yearly property tax bills here.
Socialism doesn’t always work for the poor. Being poor includes many disincentives such as paying out the ass for medical bills, or ignoring medical bills entirely, causing the cost of medical care to continually increase for everyone across the country. This is unsustainable in the long run and just runs up costs for everyone else.
Another problem is they generally aren’t educated, as education when done right is a ticket out of poverty. But we also have predatory student loans and bullshit worthless degrees that should NOT exist.
Personally, I consider myself somewhat of a conservative of sorts, but not a completely retarded one that denies covid, education, science, health care, etc. That said, I wouldn’t be against universal health care and education.
A healthier and more educated population would be better able to withstand idiots like Trump and his covid denial crew. They would make more money for this country by and large. More educated people being alive means more people farming taxes, and just generally contributing to society. But the funny thing is, most of the uneducated people don’t want the rest of the country to be educated. They want them to be just as dumb as they are.
Meanwhile, liberals, despite the fact that I can’t agree with huge swaths of their platform, are more educated, are earning more, and have basically created an entire economy out of technology that basically sustains the country.
But hey, if you want us to keep being the party of colossally moronic and totally fucking uneducated idiots, be my guest. There’s a reason why there are few republicans in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs. We have no solutions to any problems, just a bunch of uneducated rednecks trying to see who can yell the loudest.
