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...

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

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 3

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 4

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

Answer 5

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 6

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 7

Fear mongering from the right.

Answer 8

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 9

You want to live in Venezuela???

Answer 10

They feared it then also.

Answer 11

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.