Hi, I’m looking for a country whose people or government mainly support my values. I’m looking for a country that:
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supports wildlife protection
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supports eco-friendly things and solar/wind energy
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supports freedom of expression and does NOT criminalize queer people, be it trans, gay, bi, pan, intersex, asexual, etc.
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peaceful, low crime
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community-oriented
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equal and just
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very friendly towards animals, filled with animal sanctuaries and no-kill shelters
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free education and/or healthcare (preferably education and healthcare are free/government-funded)
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high taxes are therefore fine to me
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compassion-oriented
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affordable food with low unhoused rates and high employment rates
No, actually Merz is just fearmongering. They have the money to solve lots of issues in education and healthcare, but choose to spend it elsewhere (on war and tax cuts).
The German economy is doing great compared to how it should’ve tanked under rampant mismanagement in most companies, it’s actually just rich people, inequality, incompetence and bureaucracy standing in the way of the welfare state.
But surely you know more about Germany than me, I’m just a local lobbyist, not a federal one 😅
One thing you actually got right: the solution is socialism (not communism, that never worked so far, maybe in a few hundred years). We need to tax the rich until there are no rich people left, only wealthy ones.
Merz is explaining that they are going to cut welfare. Why? Because wealthy capitalists run Germany, and their gains from imperialism are drying up, so they force austerity to keep their own rate of profit while making the working class pay for it. This is the nature of late-stage capitalism. The inequality, wealth disparity, incompetence, and bureaucracy are all intrinsically tied to the mode of production, imperialist capitalism.
Yes, Germany could have welfare without imperialism, this requires socialism. Socialism isn’t taxation under capitalism like you seem to think it is, though, it’s a fundamentally different mode of production. Where capitalism is a mode of production characterized by private ownership as principle and capitalists ruling the state, socialism is a mode of production characterized by public ownership as principle and the working class in charge of the state, like the GDR.
In capitalism, you cannot simply “tax the rich until there are no rich left,” because the system is dictated by the rich.
Communism is a post-socialist mode of production where the contradictions within socialism have been resolved into a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Communism as a mode of production has never existed, only socialist states guided by communist parties working towards communism. Socialism absolutely does work, and is guiding the largest economy in the world, the PRC.