• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I agree. The cold war has changed the culture of this country. Just look at how much more of a socialist Eisenhower is compared to today’s politicians. Which is crazy as he is what passed as a Republican in his era.

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      8 months ago

      Eisenhower was considered a socialist in his era by some, but notably those some were the people who did the business plot and those like them. The 20th century in America can be summarized as unregulated capitalism destroyed our society and pushed us to the question of socialism or barbarism, a compromise was struck, and the ones who demanded barbarism spent the remainder of the century inching us back towards unregulated capitalism while pointing at the socialists and calling them barbaric.