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  • You’re kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology…plus there was the whole, “oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don’t get angry enough to demand actual socialism” thing before they could get the cold war facade up.


  • That’s the problem though, like we’re in this spot specifically because the masses can be placated with a scapegoat. In such a massive system as a government or major corporation, 1 person did not make the decisions alone and it absolutely took way the fuck more than 1 person to enact them. Humanity has never taken things far enough to punish the most heinous of crimes, look at how well things went for so many former Nazis…their surviving rape victims were literally treated worse and received the hatred from the masses that should have been directed at the people making decisions and carrying out the orders.



  • It’s really not. 1/3 of people absolutely despise any form of socialism granted strictly to the people with no immediate benefit to an authority. The moderate 1/3 is just a constant roadblock to any form of progress, very receptive to regression and usually will side with the first 1/3 while complaining slightly about everything but only ever willing to condemn progressives and socialists. So we have, at best, 1/3 of people who are even willing to consider socialism enough to be able to define it.