Why does America fear socialism when the three greatest U.S. presidents were all socialist?

Question

Scholars rate Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as the three greatest U.S. presidents.

Research shows that all three would be considered socialists in the modern political climate, so why does America fear socialism when the three greatest U.S. presidents were all socialist leading to some of the greatest periods in U.S. history.

Whereas the likes of Hebert Hoover [The Great Depression], Dwight D. Eisenhower [Korean War], Richard Nixon [Watergate scandal], Gerald Ford [Recession], Ronald Reagan [Red Scare promoter/School Prayer/Air traffic controllers' strike/Trickle down economics/War on Drugs/ largely ignored the AIDS crisis] and George W. Bush [Recession/War for Oil] were all presidents during the lowest points in U.S. history.

Answer 1

It's very simple, the wealthy elites own the media and don't want to part with their money so they spread anti-socialist propaganda which the less intelligent fall for

Answer 2

It's idiotic to promote an ideology by who would support it, and not by what the ideology entails. I can pull just as many terrible socialists out of my hat, if not more, so your argument falls apart. If you want America to be more open to socialism then maybe socialism needs to be more open to the American people. As it is often said, people fear what they don't understand. That said, if that was the case with socialism they may fear it even more vehemently.

Answer 3

The term socialists have different meaning depending on the political agenda involved as far as I know. It's pretty much got distorted to the point that some people equate it to communism.

Answer 4

You want to live in Venezuela???

Answer 5

They feared it then also.

Answer 6

great question!

Answer 7

because billionaires say so

Answer 8

Washington and Lincoln were not socialist because socialism didn't exist during their time.

Answer 9

The "threat of socialism" is nothing more than one of the boogeymen conjured up by desperate Republicans who are trying to distract from the utterly corrupt, clusterfvck that is Trump.



It's always kept in their ready political ammunition box, close at hand for whenever they think they need to pull it out and fire it off. This is one of those times...



They have others in their ready box to be deployed as needed, but this one happens to be one of the more widely used ones at the moment.

Answer 10

FDR made the Depression WORSE with his programs. That's one good reason. Only the war got us out of it. He was also a huge racist. He sent a boatload of Jews back to their deaths.

Answer 11

LOL and that is why America hates democrats,...thanks

Answer 12

because social democracy isnt the same as socialism, and socialism has killed many. far and extreme political people usually end up being the ones causing terrorism, so you keep that in mind.

Answer 13

this government is so incompetant it couldn't even run a brothel (mustang ranch) and make a profit. when government, ie:politicians, take control of anything it's doomed to failure simply because of all the infighting and refusal to accept the other side's proposal's even if they are good. that's one reason why socialism won't work here, another is that neither party made this country great we the people did with our work ethic.

Answer 14

Great scholars seem to make up history as they go. Sorry, I prefer not to learn history from the current perspective.

Answer 15

Fear mongering from the right.

Answer 16

cos they aint worked out that socialism aint the same as communism



the second thing is

the easiest way to control a population is to make them fear something - When you have done that then its easy to introduce laws to limit their freedom (cos you just tell them the laws will enable you to fight that "something"

anybody protests then you just lead the attacks on them by impying THEY want to let that "something" attack the country and they are therefore unpatriotic



(have a look at the "patriot act" and see how much control the US government could have if it wanted to control any of its citizens , and there is NOTHING they/you could do about it



all because 11 guys flew 3 aircraft into US buildings . doing this enabled the government to pile on the "fear" and enabled it to get the act into law



I dont think many US citizens grasp how much of their freedom they have allowed to be controlled just cos of those 3 events

Answer 17

America, not being a person or even a country, doesn't "fear" anything. The United States people &. as a collective country, seem to fear a great deal of things because they're indoctrinated with propaganda starting in infancy to hold many false beliefs.

Answer 18

America fears Socialism because in the current climate all the "Socialist" advocates are actually angry, inept, wanna be totalitarians in reality.

Answer 19

The game has you cold. Your knowledge of History is where

you first screwed up. You listened to a rewrite. And now your

suffering for it.

Answer 20

Democratic socialism is required, in order to have democracy, otherwise it's plutonomy, the rich buying their way into power. Corruption flourishes in a unregulated capitalist system, and it's not good, the US is not happy, compared to all the other first world countries, which are more socialist. The word itself probably will never be popular in America, due to the cold war brainwashing, but the actuality of the other Western countries, the happiest European countries, is they are, more socialist than the USA, and happier.

Answer 21

How about:



Mexican - American War - 1842 - James K. Polk (D)



World War I - 1914 - Woodrow Wilson (D)



World War II - 1938 - Franklin Roosevelt (D) and Harry S. Truman (D)



Escalation of the Vietnam Conflict into a full fledged war - John F. Kennedy (D), Lyndon Johnson (D)



As for recessions, Congress owns them, so let's see who was in control during some recessions....



1973-1975: Democrat Congress.



1981-1982: Democrat Congress



1990-1991: Democrat Congress



2001: Liberal "Bi-Partisan" Republican (Democrat Lite) Congress



2008: Democrat Congress



Stop pointing fingers unless your nails are clean, lefty.

Answer 22

Because of what happened to Venezuela.

Answer 23

3 greatest maybe 3 famousest

Answer 24

What research shows that George Washington would be a socialist today?