It is silly. You do not go back to the America of the 50's without the rest of the world being in the 50's.
See Europe and most of the world other than America destroying itself in the second world war, and the Bretton Woods agreement.
Boomers were able to buy a house on one income because they took a load of the world's income because of how America exploited the world post WW2.
This does not happen now.
Perhaps we are talking about two slightly different things. I was describing the situation in the UK and across 'developed' nations (i.e. the rise of fascism) that is leading to the same public sentiment you experienced. We had a neo-nazi march in the UK over the weekend too. You are describing what happened to you. I am explaining why,.
Maybe you were the downvoter. You can't downvote away reality. It is foolish to try.
At some point climate change is going to cause more migrants than any 'developed' nation can support. Net migtration into the UK is currently coming in at around 700k a year. This is London a decade for a country that is pretty close to as population dense as the area around New York - I think they call it the tri-state area. Imagine nearly a New York a decade into the tri-state area. That is what the UK is currently doing and has been doing for decades now.
With the best will in the world it simply isn't sustainable. The UK is not food secure and is not energy secure now. Are we supposed to rely on a belligerently corporatist EU for food, and then Russia, for energy? (edit - I haven't looked at our current energy situation, I am not interested in media stories about UK energy. I have looked into it enough to know a lot of it is bollocks.) It actually isn't possible now for the UK to have the immigration we have.
The door is going to be closed and at least many millions of the poorest globally, who haven't caused climate change, are going to lose their lives unnecessarily. I don't like it at all, but this IS going to happen. So when do we close the door? The poorest in the UK are already having food taken out of their mouths, and that working poor is growing due to many decades of neo-liberal capitalist policy. Same dynamic as the US expressing itself in a slightly different way.
I spent the second decade of this century is a small city of about 250k people that experienced about 30k immigration in the last two decades. It is a poor city anyway, with cheap available housing due to previous government decisions forcing many of the people born there to leave. They dumped a load of people into communities that cannot support them. It is not racist to say that this isn't doable. When 'liberal' media people say it is racist to complain the people I grew up with (who I don't particularly like, but will defend from outsiders) will just say 'well fuck you, if I'm racist I['ll vote for the racist party'.
I don't like any of this. I am just describing the reality. You either face up to reality or you will see fascism as a result.
It isn't rage bait or whatever. I'm not surprised a lot of Americans can't see it.
Of course this isn't socialism. It is plain and simple capitalism.
Have Americans been propagandised beyond help?
What Trump is doing has nothing to do with communism. It is raw naked capitalism, whose end game appears to be oligarchy, aligning itself with fascism rather than accept an egalitarian society in which it has to give up any of its advantage.
He threatened war on Chicago the other day, before retreating and threatening St Louis (or whichever city it was) like the whiney pedophile bitch that he is.
Stand up to him and he runs away scared. He absolutely defines the term pathological bully.
Roger Hallam - one of the founders of extinction rebellion - did a series of podcasts from prison I listened to several years back now. He spoke of this move to authoritarianism being an almost inevitable part of the process that can result in a chance of real social change.
I think his assessment of climate change is wrong in some pretty important aspects. But he has studied social change, and he has put his money where his mouth is. He is locked up now I think. It will take quite a few more people to get locked or beaten up, and a further march towards authoritariansim, before the chance of real social change arises, if he is correct.
He has been 'unmasked' several times. Kind of a pretty non-descript middle class-ish bloke in jeans etc.
This isn't an Islam issue.
What a load of complete bullshit this post is lol. At some point you just say 'this defies credibility'. This post took that sentiment and launched itself straight off the cliff of reason.
Only entirely uneducated and brainwashed Americans would claim that anything Trump is doing could be called communism. The educated world is a combination of laughing at you/shaking their head.
You really need to educate yourselves. Because at the moment your ignorance is harmful.