▲ 199 ▼ The dems are sliding right because they arent voting dem (lemmy.ml) submitted 8 months ago by mathemachristian@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments Lemmylibs: "We can fix him! I don't know how, but you all must vote for him!" Him: "How can I better appeal to the block that swore never to vote for me?"
[+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago You're kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology...plus there was the whole, "oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don't get angry enough to demand actual socialism" thing before they could get the cold war facade up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 8 months ago I don't think Truman wanted to change the mode of production lol. Amaleka never had a real left wing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago You're kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology...plus there was the whole, "oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don't get angry enough to demand actual socialism" thing before they could get the cold war facade up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml [S] 4 points 8 months ago I don't think Truman wanted to change the mode of production lol. Amaleka never had a real left wing. permalink fedilink source parent