I recall –growing up in different areas of the country– a universal hatred of those commie bastards. A lot of us were smack dab in the middle of the time of The Cold War which exacerbated our hatred for people we knew absolutely NOTHING about!
Fifty years later I met a woman who declared; I Hate The French! She hated these people with a passion but when I asked her why, she struggled with a reason –spouting some sort of inherent french a-soulistic behavior. And when I asked if she was referring to french neighbors she said ‘no’. Did you work for a French Gee (guy) she said ‘no.’ who then has cause this hatred to come about? Turns out it was tradition. WTF she didn’t know a single french person. She was a bonafide member of The Chubby Amygdala cult AKA a conservative (a-conservative) And, it amazed me that in her late 60’s she didn’t have a clue, didn’t have a clue that there was a serious division of ideologies –known as right and left, and that it was a world wide phenomenon almost as “hard” as gender… okay maybe that isn’t that hard anymore… but… well, you know 🙂  (see my earlier rand regarding CASD)
So what I’m trying to say is we gather our prejudices as youngsters based on the amount of stupid (sPPM) in our atmosphere at the time and we become set… until
something disrupts that comfortable ignorance  See the 5 monkey experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-PvBo75PDo
I’m getting tired so I’ll cut it short with a question; Who would benefit the most if communism, or commies little brother socialism –were to be completely eliminated worldwide and, who might pay trillions (this is a hint) of dollars to demonized those leftist attitudes?
Any guesses?
Okay, put another way; who would be terrified of loosing all of their wealth, social status, comfort and power if socialism became the default system of world society’s
Hint: these people will stop at nothing to sabotage threats to their… comfy lifestyles.
And lastly –for now at least– who among you is willing to listen to the boogeyman’s side of the story?
More on this subject after my nap
The Fractured Snap Of Ginger Rogers 