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Selling Socialism to America
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/10/19 | Linda Goudsmit

Posted on 03/10/2019 1:50:19 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Socialism demands a return to childhood dependence and the infantile world of subjective reality epitomized in the Green New Deal.

Socialism is a tough sell to Americans who evaluate ideas based on facts and a remarkably easy sell to Americans who evaluate ideas based on feelings. The adult world of facts is a foreign land to the infantilized world of feelings where low-info millennial voters currently dwell. The heated political battle between Americanism and Socialism parallels the battle between parents and their children who refuse to grow up emotionally and leave the nest.

Becoming an emotional adult requires embracing a fact based cause-and-effect view of the world that rejects the fantasies of childhood. “No Johnny, you cannot fly like a bird even though you really really really want to.” What happens if Johnny insists that he can fly and takes a confident leap from a tall building?


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 1blogpimp; america; clickbait; greennewdeal; pimpingblogtoamerica; pimpmyblog; sellingsocialism
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To: Sean_Anthony

We are at the point where takers will soon will be more than makers.


21 posted on 03/10/2019 3:10:00 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The Venezuelan experience is currently being denied.

22 posted on 03/10/2019 3:17:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

The Eternal Anthem of Denial:

“But this time it’s different.”


23 posted on 03/10/2019 3:21:34 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: unread

Oh of course. But to lots of people socialism seems nice.


24 posted on 03/10/2019 3:21:59 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: equaviator

And that, is exactly, what they try to do.

“They couldn’t pay me to vote for a socialist agenda. /s”


25 posted on 03/10/2019 3:32:41 PM PDT by utahb52
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To: Sean_Anthony

Much easier now that many people are convinced they are the victims of something, and their problems are someone else’s fault. One political party specifically has been pushing that for quite some time..


26 posted on 03/10/2019 3:56:34 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: unread
"America is susceptible to socialism because we’re a kindhearted people and socialism appeals to our kindheartedness."

Do you know the bloody history and political violence worldwide by Socialists (real name is Communism) Go get educated!

27 posted on 03/10/2019 3:58:39 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Walls work anytime night or day, any weather)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Let Johnny take a flying leap. Push him if you have to. Stupidity should hurt. Never discount the spiritually transforming experience of pain.


28 posted on 03/10/2019 4:01:24 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

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29 posted on 03/10/2019 4:47:17 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Rapscallion
Yardstick said "America is susceptible to socialism because we’re a kindhearted people and socialism appeals to our kindheartedness."

Rapscallion said "Do you know the bloody history and political violence worldwide by Socialists (real name is Communism) Go get educated!

I didn't say it Rapscallion, Yardstick did... Go yell at him, her, whatever... :)

30 posted on 03/10/2019 5:09:27 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Starboard

Socialism is wonderful to people who think it means they don’t have to work for a living.


31 posted on 03/11/2019 8:23:06 AM PDT by arthurus (sjrttu)
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