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Where are all the free childcare programs? The American left does nothing but throw protests (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by BigHaas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The Panthers did free before school breakfast and after school babysitting and all sorts of actual community building like that. The PSL does protests and craft events and that's it. I guess providing consistent services is an order of magnitude more difficult than organizing marches but it just doesn't seem like the marches are getting us anywhere.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago

It's non-trivial now. There's a lot of regulation of facilities, lot of licensing, lot of shit. People don't trust anyone with their kids bc of decades of media propaganda. The alienation and destruction of community we all experience extends to people with kids. Folks don't know their neighbors, they don't live in the same neighborhood very long.

All the conditions that make things shit right now make community child care very difficult. Not just caring for kids, but even getting the idea that people could be trusted to care for your kids off the ground. And people still do it.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

they don't live in the same neighborhood very long.

Yeah this is a big thing, the American working class is far more transient now, people change jobs and houses far more frequently. The Bolsheviks were walking into villages that were 100s of years old, my neighbors seem to change every six months.