Sunday, September 2, 2018

Caring and compassion

In my post yesterday about what liberals stand for (or at least what I believe in) I left out the heart of liberalism - caring and compassion.  

I believe in having the government helping people create lives worth living.  Such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, low cost governmental student loans, food stamps for the poor, job training, access to health care, etc. - the social safety net.  I suppose these can be labeled "socialist" and perhaps they are, but as I wrote, capitalism without an accompanying force of socialism becomes little more than piracy - to the victor go the spoils, and everybody else is just collateral damage. 

It is what might be called "I don't really care, do you?" capitalism.