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VGPolyglot on 03 February 2017
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badgenome said:
VGPolyglot said:

"The Socialist Party`s strength was further sapped by 1920, because of government suppression and public disapproval during World War I. Such anti-socialist hysteria as the Red Scare, and internal factionalism aggravated by the presence of Communists, took their toll. Fears associated with the Bolsheviks` seizure of power in Russia, bombings in the United States, along with a series of labor strikes, led to the Red Scare in 1919. Suspected socialists and Communists were arrested and thrown into jail. In the end, of the 5,000 people who were given arrest warrants"

1920 was after WWI, so no it was not because of the draft.

Also, it's not like college-educated white cannot have problems. Many have problems finding employment after graduation and cannot pay off their student loans, sinking further and further into debt. The genius of the right is that they can take people's misfortunes and turn it from a class issue into a race issue so that they believe that it's immigrants that are screwing them instead of the rich.

IIRC, 1920 was the year that the Sedition Act was repealed, but even this doesn't claim that they were arrested simply for being socialist. And regardless, you're talking about things that happened a century ago when the US had markedly less free speech... seemingly as an argument against permitting free speech today.

Sure, college educated whites can have problems, but these are not people living in squalor or desperation. They're posting on Twitter all day, playing revolutionary and bragging about what they're going to do next.

If that's the genius of the right, I guess the genius of the modern, oligarchical left is getting would-be class warriors to waste their energy shutting down a flamboyantly homosexual gadfly instead of stringing them up.

You didn't ask for a specific time though, you said ever,which implied that I could give any examples in history. Even here in Canada the government has conducted raids against socialists, and even for a time stole all of the Communist Party's assets and banned then as a party, which was relatively recently. I also don't know what you mean by ologarchical left. Are you talking about centrists? The left are definitely against oligarchies.