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12. re post WW II: It wasn't that US was so frickin capitalist or had the right mix of socialism..

Thu Jun 9, 2016, 01:06 PM

Jun 2016

and capitalism or such a great democracy.

We were the largest country that didn't have the war fought on its soil.

I realized this reading something about the kitchen debate between Khrushchev and Nixon in 1959.

The take home was supposed to be that Americans had a higher standard of living than the Soviets and therefore our economic and political system was superior.

Whether or not our way was superior, the Soviet Union had the bulk of World War II fought on their land, decimating their cities and their industries.

The same is true with our European allies.

We thought our shit didn't stink because we were making stuff while everybody else was still clearing rubble and burying the bodies.

By the mid to late 70's, that started to change.

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