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Every minute of every day, the media and most Americans yell about how the Democrats are going "too far left." For the rest of the world, this is an absurd statement, but the average American believes it…why? In this episode, we’re talking about the Democrats, how left-wing they really are, and why socialism has never really found a foothold in the United States.
How Left Is The American Left…And Why Didn’t Socialism Catch On Here? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Yugopnik’s video (on the red scare)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqc9xZV1nE&t=346s
Wikipedia/Political Compass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Left
Quick note about Bernie & social democracy
https://www.theglobalist.com/bernie-sanders-socialist-politics-elections/
https://qz.com/1805692/bernie-sanders-isnt-a-democratic-socialist-he-is-a-social-democrat/
UK politics
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukmanifestos2017/localpdf/Conservatives.pdf
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50524262
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50501411
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#Economic_policy
EU Parliament
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20190612STO54311/parliament-s-seven-political-groups
Eric Foner’s take
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288545
Why is there no socialist USA?
https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513609353716
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429303692-2/socialism-united-states-seymour-martin-lipset
(before you read ^) https://www.eh.net/page/47/?s=US+economy
https://books.google.com/books?id=_OG54CMBjAIC&printsec=frontcover
https://books.google.be/books?id=FPiM8oMA9xgC&printsec=frontcover
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