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jillian said:That's certainly a characterization that the extremists like to make. Maybe they've even convinced some people of that. One shouldn't confuse a sense of fairness and a sense that we're all in this together to some extent as a desire for socialism.
Most of my favorite liberals are staunch capitalists. They just want to see the weakest and poorest get a hand. Not a terrible thing now, is it? I mean, don't you think civilizations are judged by how they treat their oldest, youngest, sickest and poorest?
Oh there's no confusion.
A hand is one thing, when it's given freely by private charity. Government instituted coercive income redistribution has as much to do with charity as a jackboot in the face.