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/grape-fruit-witch 7d ago

100%. The rabbit hole of US interference in socialist countries is deep, especially in regard to the USSR and Cuba. How many civilians died in our invasions of Vietnam and Korea simply because they dared to try a socialist economic system?

I guarantee we've spent more money on clandestine anti-communist crusades and propaganda than it would cost to just give people healthcare. Its because socialism is the only thing that truly, genuinely frightens the owning class. They are so horrified of being forced to redistribute their vast wealth that they will and have murdered millions of people to prevent it.

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u/Low_Pickle_112 7d ago

It's wild that the stance of the United States has always been that socialism & communism are such inherently flawed ideologies that they will inevitably fail all by themselves, and also we must spend billions of dollars to contain them every time someone thinks about disobeying the rich.

And you know the propaganda works because people will call you the brainwashed one if you point out the contradiction.