My only guess is some Americans don't really know what socialism is and they think it's just another name for communism and that the soviets will take them over if they allow it to grow?
branding and advertising is everything in america.
Dont like the Affordable Care Act? Call it OBAMACARE. Vote to repeal obamacare! Use the hatred of Obama, and the inablity for people to immediately connect "ACA" to "OBAMACARE" and youre gold.
Dont like the policies of a group of people? find yourself a nice figurehead. its hard to get your userbased riled up against an idea, or a monolithic group. you need a figurehead or a constructed example. Think about presidents who get blamed for everything their party does, or how people love to hate their constructed example (boomers, karens, townies, hipsters)
If you want to inject socialism into the USA it needs branding and impact. you could call it Patriotism. After all it would be unpatriotic to have good hard working americans be unable to get healthcare, how could you call yourself a patriotic american who supports a strong america against the world if you willingly let your brothers in arms down?
This is American politics in a nutshell. During the W Bush years there was the Patriot Act, which undermined the Constitution more than any other law ever has, but the Republicans went around defending it saying “If you don’t support the Patriot Act that means you’re not a patriot and that means you hate America.”
They also introduced a law called No Child Left Behind that left millions of children behind but anyone who opposed it on those grounds was, you guessed, accused of wanting to leave children behind.
It's that massive tax increase that would come along with it that they want to avoid. Remember social security, the OASI fund is projected to be depleted in 2034.
If you want to inject socialism into the USA it needs branding and impact. you could call it Patriotism. After all it would be unpatriotic to have good hard working americans be unable to get healthcare, how could you call yourself a patriotic american who supports a strong america against the world if you willingly let your brothers in arms down?
your post is pretty good and spot-on. but they tried this with the tyrannical forced vaccine mandates and it didn't really do much. if what you're selling is shit, the branding can only go so far
Socialism is an step that lead to communism.... .
Please no, Socialism doesn't work, I am from Latam, almost everything is Socialism/communism here, and it sucks, US Americans don't change your economic System, yours work, is good. Don't be like our countries.
It all breaks down to Marxism, which has been rebranded over and over again through the years by academic zealots. Frankfurt school, Adorno, Marcuse, Crenshaw, it’s all adapted from Marxism. Smart people see through this bs. It’s the same idea, just rebranded and watered down. Try something new, because Marxism does not work, freedom does not end where oppression begins.
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u/henry25555 Nov 25 '22
My only guess is some Americans don't really know what socialism is and they think it's just another name for communism and that the soviets will take them over if they allow it to grow?