That Kermit could be on to something, from his study and his work you'd think he would have a better idea about the subject than many others. My reaction is that more at the forefront of the Reagan people's thinking, rather than fear of, 'Hey, in some conditions and circumstance socialism can accomplish good stuff too', would likely have been the ideological positions that having power is powerful and the ideological anti-communist (so anti-socialism pro-capitalism) positions. There was the Monroe Doctrine you know of
in place and the knowledge they had of how valuable fear was as a manipulative tool. In the mid 60's there was the Indonesian
Large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members of the Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Other affected groups included alleged communist sympathisers, Gerwani women, ethnic Javanese Abangan,[1] ethnic Chinese, atheists, so-called "unbelievers", and alleged leftists in general. It is estimated that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people were killed during the main period of violence from October 1965 to March 1966.The atrocities, sometimes described as a genocide[14][2][3] or politicide,[15][16] were instigated by the Indonesian Army under Suharto. Research and declassified documents demonstrate the Indonesian authorities received support from foreign countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.[17][18]:?157?[19][20][21][22] .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366
effort. The fear of communism was one of the main factors in the Vietnam
By the conclusion of the United States's involvement in 1973, over 3.1 million Americans had been stationed in Vietnam.[2][3]
The U.S. involvement in Vietnam began due to a combination of factors: the U.S. war with Japan in the Pacific, domestic pressure to act against communism after the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong's pledge in 1950 to support the Viet Minh guerrilla forces in the First Indochina War against France's colonial rule, and the indecisive conclusion of the Korean War.[4]
travesty. The fear factor was initially influential in getting America in there. The domino effect stuff.
And today the opposition to Medicare and Social Security as it stands in the US, big government. The conservative use of the "big government-socialist-communist they say" freakout abounds.
I don't know, perhaps there were some who were troubled by the early Sandinista success who feared that would encourage more revolution against capitalist governments elsewhere, but today they are even against the social-democrat Scandinavian models.
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