I Would Like a Democratic Socialist Government in the U.S.

[AZ Progressive]

9. FDR was the only president to get Americans to accept socialism

And those generations are mostly dead now. The majority of America's culture is anti-socialist due to its roots in Puritanism as well as the Puritan / Protestant work ethic, which endorses a winners and losers society.

"Enter a group of Dutch economists, who have discovered that the Protestant work ethic is real. A recent paper by André van Hoorn and Robbert Maseland:

Test[s] the relation between Protestantism and work attitudes using a novel method, operationalizing work ethic as the effect of unemployment on individuals’ subjective well-being. Analyzing a sample of 150,000 individuals from 82 societies, we find strong support for a Protestant work ethic: unemployment hurts Protestants more and hurts more in Protestant societies. Whilst the results shed new light on the Protestant work ethic debate, the method has wider applicability in the analysis of attitudinal differences."
- http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/protestant-worth-ethic-real-65544/


"Not all of the legacy of Puritanism suggests moral uprightness. Studies since the ’70s have also found that Americans who score high on a Protestant Ethic Scale (emphasizing self-reliance and self-discipline) or similar metric show marked prejudice against racial minorities and the poor; hostility toward social welfare efforts; and, among obese women, self-denigration." -http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/are-americans-still-puritan.html?_r=0

"According to the World Values Survey, Americans approval of competition is unmatched by any other industrialized country on earth. Americans also believe more strongly in the fairness of unequal outcomes, rewarding those who try and succeed and leaving those who fall behind to their own devices." -http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201208/why-do-we-have-obsession-winning

"Why the persistence of Puritanism in American life? “New England exercised a disproportionate influence on American ideals,” the historian John Coffey says, “thanks to a powerful intellectual tradition disseminated through its universities, its dynamic print culture and the writings of its famous clergy.” He also notes the power of Evangelicalism as a carrier of Puritan values and America’s resistance, compared with other largely Protestant nations, to secularization." -http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/are-americans-still-puritan.html?_r=0


You'd have better luck having the west coast and the northeast to secede.