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Originally Posted by GGG
Why?
Is that back to Macarthyism / red scare?
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McCarthyism killed off communism. It was Ronald Reagan that killed off socialism. The propaganda campaign run against the American people poisoned the minds of a country against a word and a concept they don't understand. Even though the country adores many socialistic institutions (big military, medicare, police, fire, etc.) and endorse corporate socialism, they just cringe at the mention of the term and immediately think of the iron curtain and the failings of eastern Europe. Have to remember that this was the time of "trickledown economics" and the embracement of greed and the market. Everyone wanted to defeat the Soviets at all costs and then become Gordon Gecko. Sad times.