Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
by mmastrac on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:01PM
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Honestly, socialism should be re-branded in the US as "Canadianism" or "Scandanavianism" to break free of that branding problem.
Americans aren't against socialized medicine or safety nets, just the "socialism" boogieman.
Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
by anonunivgrad on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:26PM
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That’s not true. America, or at least its coastal big cities, leads the world in identity leftism. That is, the kind of leftism that finds its base in gays, transgenders, criminals, and other social “losers” (as opposed to economic losers) and their sympathizers. In fact, American leftists have contempt for the working class that used to form the base of old, economic leftism. They despise crass, vulgar, manly working men.
It’s obviously more complicated than this, but that’s the 5000 foot view.
The democrats are a center right party. The republicans are at this point, a far right party. It has been a deliberate strategy of the far right to paint the center as "socialism" (which a lot of Americans seem to mistake for communism...), because it makes their ideology seem less extreme. A lot of Americans have fallen for that nonsense, unfortunately. Definitions and framing and perspective matters a lot.