True today as well.
Robert Reich @RBReich
25 Sep 2023
“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.” —Harry Truman, 1952

Sep 25, 2023 · 12:45 PM UTC

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Wow ... Good for you Harry Truman!
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Come on @RBReich !! Back your beliefs by backing @marwilliamson for President!!!
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Daniel Ortega & Hugo Chavez said the same thing before they brought equality of poverty to Nicaragua & Venezuela But blame America for all the migrants from the lands of Chavez & Ortega.
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Yep
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And the uninformed and uneducated fall for it every single time while screaming at everyone else that we're the dumb ones. Republicans have weaponized the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Truman’s concocted War Scare of 1948 makes me skeptical of him as a “truth teller”.
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The donor class now has more control over our political parties, regulators, court justices and media (Fourth Estate) than it has since the pre-FDR decade of the 1920s. That decade gave rise to the Second Klan and Father Coughlin.
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Socialism is the gospel of envy
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Every right wing argument is just "socialism scary".
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The USSR stood for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was responsible for massive human suffering and millions of its own citizens deaths. Look at Venezuela today. There’s a reason to fear putting so much power in the hands of so few.
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