@urcommunistdad Someone did a study pretty recently that confirms this. Every reform of the New Deal era was a direct response to fears of the American population embracing an alternative to capitalism.
@urcommunistdad So... Has anyone tried this with China? Can we get some fucking infrastructure around here?
@urcommunistdad For those interested Mary Dudziak’s book Cold War Civil Rights expands on this topic considerably.
@urcommunistdad So in order to force America’s hand, the hegemony needs a challenger?
@urcommunistdad So how do we bully America into making this
@urcommunistdad @CentinelOfCorn @wtyppod has a great episode about this. The story is a laugh a minute when you get into the details. What’s wild is the USSR blew him off too. It was the very presence of the journalist and him making some claims they would build it that embarrassed West Virginia into it.
@urcommunistdad Literally went to the moon because the communists went to space