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pat_k

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3. It's pretty simple
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 06:09 PM
Jun 29

Americans want their government to provide things that are best provided collectively while leaving us free to accomplish that which we can best accomplish in the private sector to the private sector, with the private sector participants who benefit the most from public infrastructure and services contributing the most to maintaining the public sector, and with laws that protect us from discrimination or abuse by private sector players.

Universal healthcare, social security, public transportation, public education -- implementing these types of public enterprises is what a liberal democracy is all about. We demand of our government that which we believe, as a people, constitute the moral obligations we have as a people.

Making America a nation we can be proud of is all about building a government that protects our individual rights while providing the public infrastructure and services we choose to provide ourselves.

That's what it means to be a liberal democracy.

And a liberal democracy that collectively chooses to socialize certain segments does not make this a socialist county.

Democrats, and Democratic socialists, and some independents are all fighting for the fundamental principles of liberal democracy.

In the course of our history these fundamental principles are a constant and central to our identity as a nation.

It is the fascist corporatists that are seeking to destroy the character of this nation.

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