@arturodiaz You’re preaching to the choir man, I know there are bad capitalist dictatorships (and even that we’ve backed up some of them in the past). I won’t sit here and defend it except to say that sometimes you have to go with what you view as the lesser of two evils… A deal with the devil so to say.
And we don’t teach our children that communism is evil. Haven’t in 20+ years. We still are suspect of it, but lets be fair, there are 4 communist nations right now and the only one we’re on good terms with is China (and even they have some blatant flaws that go simply against everythign we believe…. the illegality of Christianity for example).
And the discrimination against communists in the 50’s was drawn out to be a massive witch hunt, and crazy talk. In fact McCarthyism (he was the senator who pushed the anti-communist movement back then) is now a slur in american politics.
And socialist, well Sweden for example. Germany and France are more socialist than we are. A lot of our South American allies…. There’s a list of them… My point is that nowhere close to the majority of Americans have a negative view of these countries, or even socialism (we don’t want to become it, but that’s just a matter of choice).
And you’re right, there probably are millions of americans who believe communism is a source of evil (when most of us just think it’s been unfortunately used by predominantly “bad” rulers)... But when you consider there’s somewhere on the range of 305 million americans, it ends up being a very marginal percent of the populace (I would estimate less than 5% of the total).... which I would wager is on par with other nations in our position…..
Not to mention, it’s not like all these other countries have a great view of us… I mean look at yourself, you seem to have a pretty negative view of the US.