Is it true that Americans are to this day afraid of socialism?

[Bofferbrauer2]

Older generations do for sure. They got told all the time that socialism is bad, anything resembling anything from socialism is bad, and that the state and everything it does is bad (unless it's military, then it's supposed to be the best thing ever) but to such ridiculous degree that it's been equalized to the devil or even worse stuff. This meant things like government programs like healthcare which have no authoritarian (police and intelligence, like the FBI, CIA, NSA) or propagandist (NASA during the space race) got cut down, most notably healthcare and unemployment support. Mandated Vaccines also were considered a form of government control and the beginning of the Anti-Vaxxer movement. Unions also got almost destroyed and outlawed as fighting for worker's rights was considered something like a soviet ploy to take over the country. Seriously, just have a look at the caricatures under McCarthyism and judge by yourself.

Millenials and Z however grew up at a time where the Soviet union was dissolved and with it, the "great threat" that always got pointed at the people when they wanted to point at bad things for socialism or even just social programs disappeared with it. Instead, they got screwed over by capitalism, thrice by now, in just a dozen years. First by the financial crisis which made it very difficult for the Millenials who were coming of age at the time to get a job, then by 10 years of wage stagnation despite employment reaching new lows at the end, followed by Covid-19 and it's effects on both the economy and health, plus showing exactly why tying healthcare to your employer is such a bad idea and why the total lack of regulation in terms of healthcare just a tinderbox was that was waiting to explode.

Long story short, almost all Boomers/Silent in the US do, most of the X-ers do, but Millenials and Z, which had been screwed over by capitalism, increasingly trend to the contrary.

gamingsoul said:
Europe has been in decadence for decades soon you will become China’s puppet, you can keep your failed system And mother merkel to yourself.

If Europe has a failed system, then what would the one in the US be? A total catastrophe and train wreck or what?

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 16 July 2020