I wouldn’t disagree that older, more affluent generations are still reactionary to ‘socialism’, a concept only understood thru state propaganda. Irony somewhere there. Seems to be disappearing with younger audiences, as Gregor pointed out.
I think Americans are some of the most dominated, indoctrinated people on earth when it comes to our ‘kingdom of fear’ form of government.
Gore Vidal made a good case against Truman for being the architect of the fear kingdom immediately after WW2 by scaring the hell out of everybody to keep the army well fed and nourished with large military spending and a constant state of readiness. Breaking with the tradition of de-mobilization and scaling back to a peacetime core organization. A jobs program at best, nascent militarism at worst. Dunno, some argue it started with the civil war during the rise of industrial capitalism itself and worrying Lincoln with the consequences of a rise of the industrial military. Either way, here we are today, replacing one apparition with another two support the military contractor industry. No beating swords into plow shares for us. Not unless we make the world exactly as us. Only then can we be safe goes the pitch.
Wallace and The Roosevelt clan fought Truman but in the end, the profit motive won out.
Since then we have, as a country, only internalized more and more of the fascist ideology as the american way. Killing millions of brown complected people and doing political purges against any left leaning politics, both home and abroad, by both american right wing factions.
As far as I know, the security apparatus kills only leftists while actively recruiting fascists. Only purges leftist from academics, etc..
Hearing older generations fears of ‘what the fascists will think’ about having any left leaning politics, that exists thru out the rest of the worlds political parties quit peaceably, is a triumph of the military and security state and our two right wing political parties.



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