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No, I think it's just you. The American centre is much more libertarian than the centre in other democracies, but there isn't some weird cabal redefining leftis
by Wolfenstein98k 5y ago
No, I think it's just you. The American centre is much more libertarian than the centre in other democracies, but there isn't some weird cabal redefining leftism - it just isn't as popular there.
"They've been deliberately obfuscated by those with power and wealth" - how? By whom?
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoYou're right that left politics are not as popular here. But in the Progressive period (1880-1920 as I mentioned), the US was possibly the home of the most popular, most powerful leftish movement anywhere on the planet. So what happened ... > how? By whom? Goodness. There are so many books on this. You could start with something obvious like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", which is about a somewhat different issue but covers the way that the power structures in the US moved the Overton window in various ways to make leftish politics appear out of the mainstream. This book does a reasonably good job of covering both how socialism itself shot itself in the foot in the US and how it was shot in the other foot by the existing power structures use of propaganda/media: https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Happen-Here-Socialism-Failed/dp/0393040984/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=0393040984&qid=1628034079&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Happen-Here-Socialism-Failed/dp...