During an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line” released on Friday, Democratic U.S. House nominee Melat Kiros said that she only wants to take over private industries for basic needs and defined basic needs as things like “housing, healthcare, nutritional food, public education” where “the profit motive will always end up exploiting the most vulnerable people.” Though she later said she only is intrigued by government ownership for “utilities, like water and energy.”
Kiros said, [relevant remarks begin around 16:40] “I’m a socialist because I believe all of the evidence shows that, when you have a profit motive in industries where we’re talking about our most basic needs, housing, healthcare, nutritional...
Read the full article here