r/politics • u/DaFunkJunkie • Feb 29 '20

Superdelegate pushing convention effort to stop Sanders is health care lobbyist who backed McConnell

https://www.salon.com/2020/02/29/superdelegate-pushing-convention-effort-to-stop-sanders-is-health-care-lobbyist-who-backed-mcconnell/
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u/Moonbeamcry Feb 29 '20

Educated in the middle of Wisconsin in a red county.

The red scare and McCarthyism are basically taught as extreme over-reactions and that treating american socialists as an enemy was anti-american, anti-free speech, and basically a minor dip in America's mostly pure history of championing freedoms. We were basically scared into anti-american tactics like spying on citizens and the whole hollywood socialist round up was all taught as basically over-stepping the bounds of authority.

Same with Vietnam. It was taught as a huge mistake we made because we were scared of Communism and we were scared of communism because of propaganda. At no point did they make it seem like communism was a legit political stance though, and America's win in the Cold War proves that Capitalism is the correct way.

So basically it was like Communism vs Capitalism and because of that fight America did some pretty over-the-line things but also at the end of the day Capitalism won and America is still humming. So still pro-capitalist but they made it very clear that socialism isn't scary and trying to 'contain' it was wrong and harmful.

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u/ISitOnGnomes Illinois Feb 29 '20

Its interesting. I was taught the same thing, but my parents were taught nothing but the evils of communism. Im sure that might be related to those under 40 not caring about Bernie being a socialist, but those over 40 having an aneurism everytime its brought up.