But that would make you pro-choice, which Trump and Republicans are very much not.
Since when does support of separation of church and state makes anyone pro-choice?
Religion is not the only reason why people are pro-life.
It is clearly a "religious" question. There are plenty of Catholics who are pro-choice (about half of them, if I recall), but the question itself is a deep one that is effectively religious.
For this reason, libertarians were always very much pro-choice--before Trump turned them into partisan robots.
Regardless, the 2024 election in the USA will mostly revolve around this question. If Americans want abortion to be illegal, they will vote for Trump. If they want to keep it legal, they will vote for Harris. Everything else will be pretty small in comparison to that.
That was my point: since the turn of the 20th century, US presidents and their parties have built and maintained the US social safety net, and nobody will dare challenge it because it's infinitely popular with Americans.
It's popular because it's populism. That's how you buy votes, by promising to give people what they want even if you cannot afford it.
Sure. But's the actual world we live in...
(* Of course today, Democrats aren't talking about significantly raising taxes on anybody either, except in vague terms e.g. "make billionaires pay their fare share").
Sure, it's better not to be honest with your voters. Promise them increased healthcare, welfare for migrants, money for Ukraine and tell them all that money going to grow on trees.
The money we give Ukraine is almost insignificant in terms of our GDP. Most of the US federal government is Medicare, Social Security and the army. When politicians talk about things other than those when they talk about reducing the size of the government, they are lying to you. But those things are very popular, so they don't talk about reducing them.
there is... no guarantee that Putin won't be an idiot and pass up a chance to further extend his empire into the rest of Europe, even though he has made statements saying that is exactly what Russia should do, and even though he continues to build up his military to do exactly that.
You could always compare the military power of Russia and the EU. There's no way Russia will ever be able to conquer the EU, even without the US support and Putin knows that.
Even if somehow they could win in the end by nuking Europe, such conflict would leave Russia completely destroyed as well. Debating this makes no sense. I believe that if he ever tries that, his own people will remove him and take power.
Russian and their 3,000 nuclear warheads doesn't actually have to
use their weapons for them to be effective: the threat alone is quite sufficient.
And sure, the Russian people will remove Putin from power. LOL. Why didn't
they think of that? Just go ahead and remove a former KGB agent with a stranglehold on the political apparatus. Easy-peasy, right?
And... everybody in the US (including non-citizens) should, according to both parties for the last 80 years, have access to free healthcare. We haven't left people to die at the steps of hospitals here since the 1920s.
You don't leave them to die, but you bill them afterwards, don't you?
As for migrants, start giving them everything for free and you'll start getting the type of migrants that the EU is getting. Refugees from Africa who rob trucks on highways, stab police officers with knives and cut off their heads with machetes. Many EU countries now wish they haven't made this mistake.
We bill them, and some of them pay, and some don't. But we don't leave them to die. Once you make that promise, you need some kind of public system to deal with this.
A few years ago the radical socialists wanted a single-payer system like in the UK, but the Republicans stopped them an created a more evolutionary system that kept private insurance companies around with a few changes.
Oh wait,
that wasn't the Republicans, that was the
Democrats and the system they created was
Obamacare which is so popular with Americans that about half of Republican politicians support it now, too.
As such, we have an issue that needs to be dealt with in an efficient and intelligent way (and people can disagree on how). But fundamentally, it is not "socialist" to simply provide basic care to the sick--or if it is, then virtually every developed country in the world is "socialist", and always will be, making this term pretty meaningless.
Many countries require migrants to apply for citizenship before they can get free education, healthcare and all that. Read how this works in Switzerland.
Countries deal with migrants in slightly different ways, and the US is constantly tweaking the way they do so as well. But there's nothing in here that makes them "socialists". That's just a smear put out by Republicans. Democrats are not "socialists". Not even close.
Long story short, if you've heard that Democrats are "socialists", you are just hearing partisan campaign rhetoric, not anything that reflects reality.