How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn t Socialism Catch On Here?

The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/secondthought08211 Every minute of every day, the media and most Americans yell about how the Democrats are going "too far left." For the rest of the world, this is an absurd statement, but the average American believes it...why? In this episode, we re talking about the Democrats, how left-wing they really are, and why socialism has never really found a foothold in the United States. How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn t Socialism Catch On Here? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Yugopnik’s video (on the red scare) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqc9xZV1nE&t=346s Wikipedia/Political Compass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020 https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Left Quick note about Bernie & social democracy https://www.theglobalist.com/bernie-sanders-socialist-politics-elections/ https://qz.com/1805692/bernie-sanders-isnt-a-democratic-socialist-he-is-a-social-democrat/ UK politics http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ukmanifestos2017/localpdf/Conservatives.pdf https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50524262 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50501411 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)#Economic_policy EU Parliament https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20190612STO54311/parliament-s-seven-political-groups Eric Foner’s take https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288545 Why is there no socialist USA? https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513609353716 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429303692-2/socialism-united-states-seymour-martin-lipset (before you read ^) https://www.eh.net/page/47/?s=US+economy https://books.google.com/books?id=_OG54CMBjAIC&printsec=frontcover https://books.google.be/books?id=FPiM8oMA9xgC&printsec=frontcover Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com