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Given that about a third of the country would identify themselves as progressives, it's hard to see if they gave of their own free will, there wouldn't be plent
by skookumchuck 9y ago
Given that about a third of the country would identify themselves as progressives, it's hard to see if they gave of their own free will, there wouldn't be plenty of help to the disadvantaged.
But I rarely (never?) see any rhetoric in DNC politics about party members donating of their own free will to anything other than the Democratic party.
- tjr225 9y agoAgreed on both of your points.
- andygates 9y agoVirtue doesn't scale. Hence taxes for public good stuff because otherwise only the town with a generous Moneybags would have roads or a fire service (and the town with a racist Moneybags would only have a fire service in the white quarter). It's also hard to coordinate - see disaster response.
- skookumchuck 9y agoWe're talking simply about charity. There are plenty of wealthy liberals - like Hollywood, Gates, Buffet, Silicon Valley, etc. All the people who donated to Sanders. Plenty of money to give to charity.
- emodendroket 9y agoResources are unevenly distributed. Like, why don't the homeless all just pool their resources and buy a house?
- skookumchuck 9y agoSeattle votes heavily Democrat. There's only a tiny fraction of them in Seattle that are homeless.
- emodendroket 9y agoIt's an extreme illustration of a principle that holds at many different levels.