2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie may be more of a Democrat than the Democrats. [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Blowing the fuck out of the rest of Europe and Japan and then selling them what they needed to rebuild did a fair amount of that too, yes?
I don't think a message did that, except the one in which we lied to ourselves about how much better we were than everyone else. While denying black folk the vote.
There was no horrible communist threat. The threat was LABOR, trying to get a fair wage. Instead "communism" was thrown out as a scare tactic of the time, used partially by business unions, business, and the government who conspired to destroy the populist labor movement of the time, the democratic Industrial Labor Unions, because they threatened this capitalist way of life we know now.
What Bernie is tapping into is the frustration with the lies we have been told by people who are right in front of our face, people who we need to quit kidding ourselves about.
I don't mean to disrespect you, and you can go with all that rah-rah crap if you want to, but perhaps that is why we are in the hole we are in as a nation.