• ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    You know I really don’t know what I am. I just want everybody to live the the life they want. I want everybody to have healthcare. I want kids to be educated. I want our infrastructure to be the best in the world. I want national parks to instill the love of nature. I want the natural resources taken from our ground and oceans to be used to enrich the lives of everybody not just the few. I want any public service work to be the highest aspiration of a child be it military, paramedic, social worker, or school teacher. I don’t know what this makes me. I do know that I benefited from things like this when I was growing up and I think they are worthwhile. Like I said I don’t know what that makes me I just know that Project 2025 and the MAGA are evil and if we can not come together and fight it then everything I hoped for in life will be lost. We all will be lost. I don’t want to become that guy standing at a checkpoint asking, " what kind of American are you?"

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      6 hours ago

      The difference between liberals and leftists (and other leftists) is in how they see the path to accomplishing those things. Liberals believe in reforming the system, but not fundamentally changing it. Leftists believe that the system (capitalism) will always give too much power to the capitalists, and that reforms are doomed to be either ineffective, or short-lived.