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TDale313

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1. The flip side of The American Dream...

Reply to OBenario4 (Original post)

Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:18 PM

Oct 2017

If you buy the “Anyone can make it” is that, if you can’t or haven’t, it must be a failing on your part. Add in our Puritanical roots, and being poor is seen by too many as a moral failing. We are conditioned not to point out the system is broken or the playing field uneven.

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"Socialism never took root in America because..." [View all] OBenario4 Oct 2017 OP

The flip side of The American Dream... TDale313 Oct 2017 #1

True. OBenario4 Oct 2017 #2

Yep. TDale313 Oct 2017 #5

I thought that was a John Steinbeck quote. Ken Burch Oct 2017 #3

It's traditionally attributed to him, but it's a mistake. n/t OBenario4 Oct 2017 #4

Thanks for the correction Ken Burch Oct 2017 #6

...because it never took root anywhere? brooklynite Oct 2017 #7

No, I mean socialism indeed. OBenario4 Oct 2017 #10

I think Richard Wolff has a better explanation. It's because of the cold war Quixote1818 Oct 2017 #8

Nice video. OBenario4 Oct 2017 #9

,,,and yet Socialism never took root anywhere else BEFORE the Cold War. brooklynite Oct 2017 #11