been driving through deep deep red areas in OR , ID & UT and just can't help but notice all the big government socialism in the form of large scale irrigation projects.
#newdeal #fdr #socialism #government #publicworks
That isn't socialism. A capitalist government having significant involvement in an industry that benefits the public isn't what socialism is. The motivations are still rooted in and influenced by the accumulation of profits, and capitalists would likely still have major influence over it all.
@Radical_EgoCom
Well the very ranchers and farmers that are benefiting from it would absolutely call any large scale government project that benefited others a socialism and big government. They fancy themselves as self made rugged individualists.
They would call it socialism likely because they don't know what socialism is outside of the anti-socialism propaganda they've been induced with since adolescence, meaning, to them, "socialism = government doing a lot of stuff."
@Radical_EgoCom
Government doing a lot of stuff *for people they don't like. *
@Asbestos
Also, those farmer co-ops seem a little communistic, don't they?
@Asbestos When LBJ turned against the New Deal, he said of course the bringing of electricity to Texas was ok.