American liberals aren't leftists. Marxists like myself are scientific materialists, we don't believe a man can declare himself a woman, wear a dress and some makeup, and become an actual woman. That has nothing to do with socialism. Capitalism created all of this gender dysphoria by funding the activists and getting children hooked on hormones for the rest of their lives. The medical industry sees all of this as a lucrative business opportunity. The American ruling elites love the idea of emasculating working-class men, turning them into effeminate servile employees/exploitees.
Capitalism hates the family, forcing women to get a job to help their husbands pay the bills. The golden age of our economy was after WW2, between the late 1940s and late 60s, one might argue even up to about 1980. The top tax rate was 90% in the 1950s and 60s, and a significant % of our workforce was unionized.
One breadwinner in the family, typically the husband, was enough when our economy was essentially a leftist, highly unionized, labor-affirmative, and oriented economy. The bottom line for the American business enterprise wasn't just profits, but to serve the community and the nation. The average salary of CEOs for large companies back then was 20 times that of their workers. Today in 2023 the average salary of a CEO for one of the Fortune 500, is 300+ times more than their workers. Today the economy serves the wealthy elites at the expense of working-class people.
Supply-side, trickle-down economics, i.e. Reaganomics, gutted the American working class. It stripped America of its manufacturing base, broke up most of the unions, dramatically increased the cost of living and plunged America into heavy debt due to all of the tax breaks for the rich, that supposedly were going to "trickle down" to the working class. The problem is that the "trickle-down" doesn't trickle, it rather congeals at the top.
This is America, and we can easily eliminate homelessness and the substance abuse epidemic, but unfortunately, Republicans continue defunding programs that house the homeless and provide them with the services they need to get back on their feet. You also defund government programs that provide assistance to single mothers, helping them raise their children. The Republicans portray themselves as "pro-life" and the champions of fetuses in other people's wombs, but their actions prove them to be pro-death due to their indifference to that same fetus once it's born and out of the womb. These religious conservatives make a stink about mask mandates in the middle of a deadly pandemic then turn around and use the hard hand of government to force women to remain pregnant even before they have a fetus in their wombs.
The hypocrisy of these conservatives is quite amazing.