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Originally Posted by Farfisa
As much as I want free healthcare and better education in less fortunate areas, our politicians and the majority of America are too stubborn to give in to any sort of major change.
I honestly don't even feel like voting in the coming election, maybe that's because I'm an idiot when it comes to politics.
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I'm sure this is only part of it and not the whole picture, but it seems to me the general US populace for a long time have had an unhealthy negative association with the word socialism. I guess it's the lingering effects of the cold war when US propaganda made an enemy out of communism. Of course communism isn't good, but neither is the opposite extreme.
With the way elections are (awfully competitive and infused with capitalism), US politicians need ideas they can "sell" to the people and I guess those socialist political ideas generally haven't been sellable. Obama won the election last time, but I'm not sure how much democratic/political help and support he's had when it comes to actually putting those ideas in motion.