As @mashagessen wrote not long ago, Americans, especially boomers, are so consumed by Cold War narratives that they can't delink totalitarianism from socialism. Young people maybe just want a better social safety net in a world wrecked by boomers.https://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1234212548410519554 …
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The reason totalitarianism and socialism are linked, despite no inherent ideological connection, is that socialism has meant in practice the death of political pluralism in the countries where it was seriously attempted. The burden of proof here in a democracy is on socialists.
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We have excellent contemporary examples of countries that combine free markets, private enterprise, a large public sector and robust, high-quality social services. But if people are advocating socialism, rather than social democracy, then they must face the historical record.
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