no,we dont enjoy watching the poor suffer we have a fundamentally different view on personal freedom, drug use, the role of the state and a hand full of other issues, including but not limited to corruption and other bad faith actors which is currently creating a whole pile of problems, the homeless epidemic being just one example.  the massive cross isle distrust (omg other leader is going to be a dictator!) does not help. the highly visible mentally ill and drug addicted homeless overshadow the homeless poor living in tents and rvs and most people arent even aware of that second group,  to oversimplify things a bit, the homeless crisis is one manifestation of an extreme view on freedom which includes the right to destroys ones self. this means that solutions imported from europe tend to fail because only part of the whole is brought in. the free housing thing for example was done is my city. it was touted as solving homeless, a few years later there were hundreds to thousands of homeless in the downtown area, and to this day they are still in the parks, and in some neighborhoods people treat them as wildlife and get angry if you call the police to get one out of your yard.
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