2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf you were born after the end of the Cold War, do you have a visceral reaction to "Socialist"?
or even Communist?
or does it have as much impact as whig, federalist, or the silly walk party?
I am old enough to remember the Cold War, and for all of the Cold War propaganda, I never had the visceral reaction to socialist or even communist the way I do to Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, or to a lesser extent, fascist.
I'm guessing that's even more true for those who grew up after the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction dialed down.
But I could be wrong.
Let me know in the poll and in your comments.
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YES. I was born after the Cold War but communist and socialists get a negative gut reaction from me. | |
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YES. I was born after the Cold War but ONLY communist get a negative gut reaction from me. | |
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NO. I was born after the Cold War but communist and socialist get NO negative gut reaction from me. | |
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NO. I was born after the Cold War and have a positive reaction to socialist. | |
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YES. I'm old enough to remember the Cold War and communist and socialists get a negative gut reaction from me. | |
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YES. I'm old enough to remember the Cold War but ONLY communist get a negative gut reaction from me. | |
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YES. I'm old enough to remember the Cold War but communist and socialist get NO negative gut reaction from me. | |
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YES. I'm old enough to remember the Cold War and have a positive reaction to socialist. | |
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I'm voting for Donald Trump's hair | |
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0rganism
(23,989 posts)seems kind of subjective, as it wasn't a declared war and wasn't resolved with a treaty.
might be easier to pick a year and say "born after 1989" or whenever you see the CW actually ending.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)as to what extent you can remember the Cold War, and that would depend on all sorts of things, including how much your own family paid attention to such things. Or what was said to you at school or perhaps even in church or on the playing field of some sport you participated in.
But I'd say generally anyone born after 1985 would have no significant memories of the Cold War. They might well remember watching the fall of the Berlin Wall on TV, but that would probably be it.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)We just continued our kid stuff and never feared. I do not recall, in Catholic School...the duck and cover they might have performed in public schools?
Recon they thought Jesus was on OUR side?
jcgoldie
(11,657 posts)Which ends with the collapse of the soviet union.
0rganism
(23,989 posts)fwiw the wikipedia CW article concedes ambiguity: "Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 194791 is common."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
the OP considers anyone born post-1985 as qualifying.
so clearly there's some wiggle room. for purposes of this poll, it doesn't matter all that much to me, as i was born well before 1985.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)this has no meaning in the Presidential election, as no one involved is a socialist or a communist.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)are still wearing those Cold War, red-scare blinders.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)firebrand80
(2,760 posts)I don't have a "they're the enemy" type reaction.
It does, however, strongly affect my "political prognosticator" sense.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)firebrand80
(2,760 posts)How some of the specific policy proposals will hold up to attack
yurbud
(39,405 posts)marry someone of the same sex.
Whenever someone trots out that argument, I ask if the person making it is or will be confused about their sexual orientation because of others being openly gay or gays getting married, and they always say, "Oh no, but somebody else might."
yurbud
(39,405 posts)marry someone of the same sex.
Whenever someone trots out that argument, I ask if the person making it is or will be confused about their sexual orientation because of others being openly gay or gays getting married, and they always say, "Oh no, but somebody else might."
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Socialists have always been the Good Guys for me.
Capitalists always the bad guys.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Though technically I was born in 1986, my earliest memories are in 1990, so I have no memory of the Cold War.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)and my only visceral reaction to the Cold War is to the Reagan propaganda.
But then, I've never really been afraid of the world.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I voted as if I was born after the cold war ended because I was too young to really understand the Cold War and I don't remember even hearing the word "socialist" when I was young.