There was a time (Sixties) when the phrase “share the wealth” equated to “socialism” in the mind of the average American. And, in that same mind, socialism was a bad thing. I just get the feeling these days that the sinew that once held these ideas together just doesn’t exist anymore.
That memories are too short to connect “share the wealth” to socialism is not surprising. What is a little surprising to me is the number of people in this country who are ready and even eager to adopt socialism, in all or in part, as our economic model.
That’s the only bad consequence of the fall of communism in the USSR. We don’t have the spector of the Soviet Union hanging over us to remind us to stay diligent.