Just posted this responding to a PA FB 'cyber-friend' 'independent who attested about

[elleng]

his grandfather's coal-mining thinking, and hoping to keep 'our country from falling into a Socialist agenda that will turn our country into a depression.'

"In President Harry's Truman's remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this:



Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.



Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.



Socialism is what they called farm price supports.



Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.



Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.



Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."

I have not been political with him, but admired his nature work.

A political conversation has begun, where it hadn't existed before. I'll likely remain silent, as others have taken up my position.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Socialism has actually been the conservative scare word since the before WWI.

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It had a lot to do with the architectural designs of cities that were shared between countries.
Various engineers, architects and developmental designers were trying to create efficient cities
that also had aesthetic benefits. The same planning that goes on today, was being crafted
back in the late 19th Century and in the early 20th Century.

Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia is one such product of these intellectual exchanges.

Municipal water and sewage treatment was decried as socialist ventures and conservatives
viciously fought them, beginning in the mid-1800s.

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[elleng]

2. Right; guess folks need something(s) to fear and/or complain about,

and then fail to study and understand. DAMN!