We've swung pretty far toward socialism before. The New Deal and the Great Society were pretty huge lurches.
How The American Empire Is Self-Destructing (just like the ones before us)
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and yet we came out still a prosperous capitalist democratic economy...because a policy or program deemed "socialist" is not really socialist when you compare what we have in the U.S. v truly socialist countries.
Socialism has little or no chance of become the driving force of this economy or political system.
Socialism has little or no chance of become the driving force of this economy or political system.
Not overnight. But look how far this country has drifted towards socialism in the last 40-50 years, the trend is exponential. Another 10-20 years and this country will be unrecognizable.
You have to try to recall what the country went through in the 1930s, which was absolute crap-ass, which then led right into WWII in 1939. An extraordinary time that cannot be comprehended by anyone alive today on the level of living a daily life. And I can understand the New Deal stuff and why it was important and from the basis of what it was built from, namely, said depression and WWII lead-in.
I understand FDR's reasons. But we, the generation walking on the back of those folks, have let it get out of hand, with no checks.
We just keep blanketing new shit upon the old shit to try to protect it. It has become an outdated system, where the people who could not work because the country was in a dust-bowl were helped by people who could work, to a system where there is no dust bowl, but the people who can and do work now support people who choose to not work.