"Because we need to be having more conversations about the public good."
Americans have a very unique vision of what a government can, and should, do for its citizens. That view is mostly from an adversarial position that assumes a democratically elected government will become, automatically, the enemy of the people the day after any election.
This is very nonsensical, but it has all but enshrined conservative governance for the foreseeable future to the extent that the participants of the Jan 6th insurrection are considered "patriots and heroes" by almost half of the voting citizens. Most of those would tell you that "capitalism" is written into the founding documents and that the authors of those meant for freedom to extend to corporations even if it means allowing actions detrimental to the society.
"It’s okay to say the government does some things the private sector can’t. It is a fact."
Actually, the federal government does only one thing better than the private sector, but that one thing is a whopper. It can create and spend money to achieve its goals regardless of its revenue or its past spending history. It never needs to "get" money from any source because it makes the money and has a monopoly on that ability.
Banks can "finance" economic activity, but that comes at the cost of interest and is always balanced out by the debt that the borrower assumed. Only the federal government can actually create "net" monetary assets in the private sector and it must do so to provide a store of value from the nation's commerce. The founders realized this and baked a certain amount of socialism into our constitution when it gave the power to "coin" the nation's currency to Congress (Article 1: Section 8) and then mandated that it do so for "the common welfare".
"Our ancestors had all of these same battles. They literally died for those benefits, but we don’t know it because we’re too far away from the Great Depression, ignorant of history, and propagandized by the Koch Network and freaking Prager U."
It is critical to the investment class that the little people view their employers as the source of all bounty and their government as a "cost" that takes from them what it demands to provision itself. If they really understood that money that doesn't yet exist cannot be collected or borrowed they would better understand how important the currency-issuing government is to our economy.
