Has the US been a socialist country during large parts of the last century?

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HappySqurriel said:

One of the things that he pointed out was that Fascism is amazingly popular because it is never sold as a loss of personal rights and freedoms to a totalitarian government, it is typically promoted as an increase in the role of government to solve social/economic problems (often in the shape of "socialist" social programs). As the size and power of the government increases people have less ability to handle abuses of that power by the government and it (tends to) fall down the slippery slope of becoming a totalitarian regime.

 

In that case internalized neoliberalism must work even better since the conglomerate of fatcats can keep the people in control without coercion.