Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Periodic self-repetition: welfare state services are not "left". The welfare state was invented by Bismarck as a way to counter socialism, and involves the state providing services as the state decides. The right is fine with that.
When conservatives denounce welfare and liberals defend it, they are fighting over different versions of state control. Neither one is socialism, which involves public or worker control.
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