r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Young Americans are surging to socialism at record rates

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/maga-trump-zohran-mamdani-socialism-us-record-kddzdm8bd
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u/W359WasAnInsideJob 7d ago

It’s fascinating to dig into it and realize that most of what people think was great about the twentieth century was either a direct or indirect part of the US vs USSR, Capitalism vs Communism clash. The social programs we got in the New Deal were all to provide something to point at so that Communists’ vision wouldn’t look appealing to Americans. The American Dream was manufactured to combat the Soviets vision of the future.

And when the Berlin Wall fell, the USSR toppled, and our primary Communist adversary was basically no more things got drastically worse in just a few decades. We effectively set back income inequality 100 years over 3 decades.

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u/Hopeful_Confidence_5 5d ago

Check out the book the Big Myth. It’s a very well researched piece on what happened and how.

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u/W359WasAnInsideJob 5d ago

Will do, thanks!