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Since PC can't or won't answer the question, what caused the rise of Socialism and the Progressive Movement in the late 19th and early 20th Century, I'll give her the one word answer:
INEQUITY!
Or, the lack of fairness and justice. Which, BTW, is manifest today around the world and in our country with the rise of Callous Conservatism.
My reluctance is based on the fact that you reek with fear when reading the title of the thread, and have tried to change the subject.
"...the rise of Socialism and the Progressive Movement in the late 19th and early 20th Century...
...I have considered starting a thread about just that.....it will center on Hegel, and the fact that many of our Presidents were tutored via German scholars.
It is very different from American thought and attitude.
You should be very careful about endorsing Germanic views of governance.
Now....accept the challenge of the thread to which you have voluntarily subscribed and explain why Liberal/Progressive/Democrats are so enamored with homicidal philosophies such as communism.
Hegel Smagel. Primary sources, voter registration records from the era are telling, and aren't the product of working men and women reading Hegel or Marx or following the lead of anyone but their stomach and those of their family.
Your efforts to label everyone as a Communist is so '50's, the only fear I might have is that the inequity of the 'teens' will bring labor strive, and make the violence of the 30's look like a snowball fight by pre teens.
That you don't know that you and your ideological friends are the problem which will create what you fear most, is why I'm certain your efforts to intellectualize a rewrite of history is so misguided.
1. "Fifty years of liberal propaganda got people to thinking of Communist Party members as lovable idealists and the urge to fire them from their government jobs as an irrational anachronistic prejudice. Allowing card-carrying members of the Communist Party to handle classified material after the Alger Hiss case would be like encouraging al-Qaeda members to carry box cutters on airplanes after 9-11."
Coulter
2. Now, you coward....accept the challenge of the thread to which you have voluntarily subscribed and explain why Liberal/Progressive/Democrats are so enamored with homicidal philosophies such as communism.
They're not so enamored, and you know it and that is one reason, there are several, that I find you to be one of the most dishonest regulars on this message board.
You've made an allegation, prove that liberals, progressives and Democrats are enamored with homicidal philosophies! Even if you can name one, that has no bearing on the millions of Americans you chose to defame.
In fact, character assassination is your game, alone with rewriting history using obscure authors who scholarship is wanting for it is motivated not by looking for a truth, but the want of a dollar.
In academia your conclusions are supported by an Appeal to Authority; maybe your impressed by one or two writers you consider authorities; I'm not, for the non fiction I read has pages and pages of notes and cites from many different sources. Most include primary sources in the citations, letters, photographs, newspapers and magazines, poems and songs of the era - all of which paint a picture for the reader well before the final chapter is written,
This is why I find you to be a phony.
"Even if you can name one..."
You're right, fool....I didn't name one....
I named six.
FDR
Wallace
Truman
Ted Kennedy
Carter
Obama
And assorted members of their administrations.....
Looks like you're the only dishonest one here.
Or....simply the dumbest.