On deep level these people are just rejecting society itself. They do not want to participate. They do not care how society has benefitted and continues to benefit them. They don't care what happens to anyway else.

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If you own your house outright, you are rich. Elderly people can defer property taxes until the sale of the house. We already tax incomes in a progressive way.

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This is my least lefty coded believe for US style politics, but I strongly believe crime reduction and policing should be progressive priorities, because crime disproportionately impacts the poor. This includes white collar crime, but not just that.

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I will get murdered by the BlueSky hive mind here but, he is right. US has fewer cops per capita than most countries, and they are often received much less training, and of worst quality. We need need more and better cops in many, many jurisdictions in the US.

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An American leftist citing “the average person <in the world> makes $13k annually” in a discussion about US healthcare is a person engaging in a desperate pivot to keep the conversation focused on billionaires to ignore that from a global perspective literally everyone in the US is rich

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