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It's helpful that Romney came out and said it so brazenly. There's been a lot of incredulity over this idea until now.
by mmaniac 2y ago
It's helpful that Romney came out and said it so brazenly. There's been a lot of incredulity over this idea until now.
- krapp 2y agoThere still will be. I believe this narrative is part a more general effort to normalize the suspicion that all "leftist" or "progressive" ideology among American youth, especially any rejection of capitalism, religion, or American imperialism, is the result of communist propaganda and mind control. The end goal being the government exercising direct censorship and control over the American internet to preserve "free speech" from pernicious foreign influence.
- mmaniac 2y agoI agree, but I would characterise it more generally than that. It's not specifically leftism, but any rejection of the theory that underpin the present power structure. For example, right wing populism which takes the form of isolationism (in America) or anti-Atlanticism (in Europe) must be Russian astroturfing.