Socialized benefits are more common than you think. And people love them.
Legitimately, I grew up as a military kid, and it was absolutely a culture shock when I left that environment and realized how much of that was guaranteed to my family by virtue of being in the military and not just because we were citizens of this country.
…growing up with access to all of the benefits of the US military is the reason I’m a full-on socialist now.
Those things have to be kept scarce so that people will agree to join the military to get them in the first place. If everyone had them, how do they get people to join?
While it would be horrifying regardless, this post fails to mention (although the source does) that Phi Pham is not from Vietnam. His parents were Vietnamese refugees who ended up in the Philippines, where he was born, and from there he legally emigrated to the US where he has lived the majority of his life. He is facing deportation to a country that he is not a legal citizen of, that he has never been to, and where he knows no one. He is not unique in this situation, the US government increasingly deports refugees to “countries of origin” that they have never been to.
