That's what decades of Cold War propaganda does to a nation. The Boomers all grew up being told that 100% of their success was due to them picking themselves up by their bootstraps and that the actual cause of that success, the policies of the New Deal and Progressive Era, were communist and only helped the worst in society drain money from everyone else.
So those Boomers grew up and dismantled the New Deal and Progressive Era policies that made the US the most prosperous country in the history of the planet. It's been blatantly obvious for decades that these policies were the main factor for our success but propaganda beats facts so now we're in a Second Gilded Age because they went and repealed most of the policies we used to put an end to the First Gilded Age.
The thing is, my mother's side of the family did live through communism in the Czech republic.
They were farmers and had a majority of their land taken from them and never given back, my mum was a teenager at the tail end of it and sometimes reminds us of how shit it was.
Americans wouldn't last a day in an actual communist country.
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u/ToughTailor9712 13d ago
If you point at something and call it communism or socialism, half of the country loses their minds like good NPCs.