The left thinks government control of housing, healthcare, wages, etc is the answer. They condemn capitalism despite the overwhelming evidence that it is superior to socialism and communism. They want equal outcomes which inevitably means equality at the lowest level - poverty.
The left is brainwashed into thinking higher taxes, more welfare and government control will make America better. They want to keep the population dependent on the government to keep the leftists in power. They despise independence because it gives people freedoms that welfare removes. You claim to have a heart giving welfare with other people’s money. Teaching a man to fish, rather than giving him a fish, is real compassion and that is what conservatives offer.
Universal healthcare isn’t better. Just ask all the people from Canada and Mexico who come to the US for healthcare (if they can afford to).
Paying people more for doing the same work causes inflation so, that wage never becomes “livable” no matter how high the government makes it. Minimum wage mandates make automation affordable, causing job losses.
Most of homeless people are there by choice. No housing is “affordable” when you’re suffering from substance abuse and/or don’t want to take on responsibilities.
If these, so called, well functioning developed nations are so great, why aren’t Americans clamoring to migrate to them instead of the opposite which is happening?