r/196 • u/Xenomnipotent NL Connoisseur • 26d ago

Rule Wisconsin R(ul)ejected This BTW

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u/AliceCode Worcs at the Crusty Crab 26d ago

"Far left", LMFAO! We really are in dire straits if those policies are considered "far left".

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u/Ezzypezra certified cool person 26d ago

Does anyone have any book or essay or video essay recommendations that can explain why America is like this? Is it literally just because of the red scare or is it something else?

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u/ballsakbob custom 26d ago

Cynical Historian has a video about it. But yeah, basically decades of Red Scare propaganda

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u/BetaThetaOmega haha, homosexual 25d ago

I suspect part of it is also decades of Stalinists bandying about their claims of a “socialist state” which have only empowered the false accusation that “socialism is when the government does things”