Fear of Socialism — Again
[column written 12/09/2020 © 2020 by Mumia Abu-Jamal] As joblessness and deep hunger creeps across America, politicians have pulled out the fear card: socialism, to insure that voters stay in their place. Astonishingly, for almost a century, this ploy has worked, and almost worked when President Herbert C. Hoover ran against Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal”, which Hoover decried as socialism, and a threat to the American way. Roosevelt won in a landslide, for the country was still in the grips of the Great [...]