There is apparently widespread concern in some quarters that @BernieSanders, if elected, would cease extra-constitutional powers and impose totalitarian socialism on the nation. I'm genuinely surprised to find people worried about this, and to be honest I think it's ~PTSD talking
Fair enough. On the other hand, by the standards of 1920, we've already been living under totalitarian socialism for decades. (O tempora, o mores!, etc.)
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Many conservatives have carried a grudge since FDR (maybe they inherited it). Most of us just call what we've lived under "democracy."
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Abusing the commerce clause by threatening to pack the court sure is democracy.
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Professors had these same fears about the woke movement in the 1980s, but people dismissed them as right-wingers or paranoid McCarthyists. We can see in retrospect that they were right -- education did become totalitarian in many schools. Time to nip it in the bud governmentally?
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More like the turn of the 80s/90s, no?
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Consider us poor Brits: we had basically anarcho-capitalism from 1842 to 1874 and we remaining Peelites and Gladstonians are unreconciled to these communistic ideas like income taxes and commercial regulations.
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Which western country hasn’t? Didn’t John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt try to pass a universal healthcare bill?
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A social safety net within a capitalist system is not socialism.
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