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The entire system in the US is made to keep as many people as possible teetering at the brink of absolute poverty and scared shitless from that happening (since what follows that is mostly homelessness or prison, both dealth with in the most inhumane way imaginable), since that makes it much easier to exploit those people to the max.
The point of the Social Safety Net was to stop that, but whatever little of it ever existed has been torn down in the US (and is even being torn down in other countries as mainstream politicians there have aped American "liberal" politics)
Everyone everywhere should be terrified of their country emulating the US
All the right wingers are hard at doing so, as are the "center"-"left" mainstream parties though in a more dilluted way - essentially the conquests of the post-War period are being destroyed, same as in the US but starting from a higher basedline in Europe so there's more to destroy before reaching the bottom.
Shit, even the "fringe" "left" has a large subset of parties led by people whole detached from any single global and consist ideology (such as the older ones like Socialism, Social Democracy or Anarchy) who grew up only ever knowing Neoliberalism and thus whose idea of being "left" is the Neoliberal "moral liberalism" (mostly commonly known as Identity Politics) that very explicitly excludes the greatest, most widespread and most suffering causing inequality of all - Wealth Inequality - which is probably why the Far-Right is gaining massivelly from the fall of the mainstream parties than those "left" parties, since even the Far-Right lies are more appealing to the Working Class than the upper middle class well-off scion of well-off parent's idea of "equality" that these parties defend.
(I was actually a member of such a "fringe" "left" party for a few years and was thoroughly dissapointed)
And yeah, I'm terrified.