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According to Richard D. Wolfe https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff It's because American Capitalists felt thre
by x5n1 11y ago
According to Richard D. Wolfe
https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff
It's because American Capitalists felt threatened by the Socialists, because the New Deal and a bunch of other things that happened in the 20th century due to unions and Socialist activism along with American elite alignment that scared them and their continued ability to run America for their interest, so they spread tons of rhetoric and propaganda to make Socialism a boogie man, eventually associating it with Communism... and it worked.
In general in the United States ideological words get muddled through rhetoric and propaganda until you can no longer talk about them. When this happens it's impossible to act on anything because you can't talk about it much less come to any conclusion about whether it's good or not or if it serves your interests. It's a brilliant propaganda technique that seems to have been mastered to stifle any debate about ideology.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoI think it generalizes to Americans being uncomfortable with anything they perceive as ideology. The propaganda just serves that. Lyndon Johnson would have "gotten away with" The Great Society had he not also been forced to deal with Vietnam. Regardless of what we in the US say of that, those programs are very much part of our ...portfolio. At an ethical level, Americans are much more likely to embrace consumer surplus as a core value, hence the emphasis on work rather than on government. Our "conservatism" when it is coherent is really a more-radical Liberalism in the sense of an emphasis on a self-reliant individual.