{"id":31296,"date":"2012-11-09T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/seduction-by-the-demonized.html"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:16:38","slug":"seduction-by-the-demonized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/seduction-by-the-demonized.html","title":{"rendered":"Seduction by the Demonized"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hindraker complains:<\/p>\n

"To me, the most telling incident of the campaign season was a poll that found that among young Americans, socialism enjoys a higher favorability rating than free enterprise. How can this possibly be, given the catastrophic failure of socialism, and the corresponding success of free enterprise, throughout history? The answer is that conservatives have entirely lost control over the culture."<\/i><\/p>\n

Paul Krugman explains:<\/p>\n

"After decades in which right-wingers have attacked long-established institutions \u2014 Social Security, progressive taxation, unemployment insurance \u2014 as \u201csocialism\u201d, a lot of young people now believe them, and think that this \u201csocialism\u201d thing really isn\u2019t so bad."<\/i><\/p>\n

In some ways, this is the "boy who cried wolf" tale writ economic. In other ways, it's charmingly ironic, especially if it does in fact noodge the US in future decades closer to European-style socialism. \u00a0<\/p>\n

(Not that true socialism, in terms of a thoroughly government-managed\u00a0economy, doesn't have serious flaws as well, but by painting that with the same label as "progressive taxation" and "federal emergency response," economic conservatives of the Fox News style have rendered the differences much more difficult to sum up, or to believe.)<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Shannon Turlington<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf everything good is “socialism”, don’t be surprised if socialism gets a good name.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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John Hindraker complains: "To me, the most telling incident of the campaign season was a poll that found that among young Americans, socialism enjoys a higher favorability rating than free enterprise. How can this possibly be, given the catastrophic failure of socialism, and the corresponding success of free enterprise, throughout history? The answer is that … Continue reading “Seduction by the Demonized”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1616,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/03\/stimulus.html","url_meta":{"origin":31296,"position":0},"title":"Stimulus","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Dec-01 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"PunditWatch's Quote of the Week \"In Europe they call it socialism, here we call it a stimulus package.\" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--David Brooks...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/isnt-free-money-another-term-for-socialism.html","url_meta":{"origin":31296,"position":1},"title":"Isn’t “Free Money” another term for … SOCIALISM?!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Nov-09 7:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And ... hey ... that chimp looks awfully evolutionary ... 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