ofriceandruin [none/use name]
Maybe, but this skirts too close to the kind of personal responsibilty, “tighten our belts” kind of discourse that libs like to trout out. It’s relatively simple: we can have medicare for all, education for all, and all that jazz RIGHT NOW. So is it so hard to believe that we can’t have “Child Support for All” now? Why is it that the money machine goes brrr for all sort of horrible things (endless wars, trillions injected into a failing stock market, tax cuts, etc.) and leftists rightfully call it out as BS, but when it comes to child support, then it becomes all about some weird Jordan Peterson personal responsibility shit mixed in with some borderline TERF shit about the “sperm contributing parter” (which I can’t help but feel is used as cover for some gender essentialist shit) “manning up” or whatever.
Yes I’m using those terms interchangeably. Anyone’s whose majority income is accrued through direct capital gains and conscious investment in labor markets is a capitalist and should be “means tested” the fuck outta of any state protection
Then why not do it through a taxation system that’s less likely to trigger direct reaction (i.e. “they’re stealing my money to pay for them blacks!”).
Would you? You seem like you’d be the first to yell words like “fuck” in front of your kids and get easily angered, like you seem to be doing to some stranger on the internet, as evidence by your responses here. If this is how you treat strangers, I can only imagine how you treat vulnerable kids in your own home, away from prying eyes.
I agree with you about social democracy, but at this point don’t we have to deal with more than a simple division between capitalist and working class? Seems like at this point in history it’s more of a spectrum than a binary. If that’s truly the case then what would you suggest? Also, let’s remember that there hasn’t been a real, successful socialist revolution in the imperial core/global north (at least to my limited knowledge). I don’t want to get into some weird revolutionary LARPing here.