[toomuchtodo]

Collectivism vs rugged individualism and exceptionalism with a serving of low empathy self interest institutionalized.

[JumpCrisscross]

Sure. I’m just saying that we can’t throw the brainwashed/corporate corruption card at everything we don’t like.

[toomuchtodo]

True, not everything, but the valid challenges (citizens united, excessive spending in politics, and low information/unsophisticated economic participants).

[anonymouskimmer]

You're literally referring to an era in which anti-Communist propaganda in the US was at its zenith. And where Capitalism was, in this propaganda, written as the natural enemy of Communism.