Steven Godby

Social Democracy Steven Godby

A social democracy is a democratic country with a foundation of capitalism that distributes some of its wealth for the benefit of the whole of society. Western Europe and North America are made up entirely of social democracies; Australia and New Zealand are social democracies, some South American countries are, India is, South Africa is, Japan is, and other parts of Asia are. No two are the same. Despite this, for decades the terms 'socialism' and 'social democracy' have been weaponized in the United States to cast government programs in support of a social safety net as communist and evil. They're not, but that doesn't stop millions of people believing a set of falsehoods that have been entrenched within parts of the working classes for nearly a hundred years, causing them to vote against policies entirely in support of them - in other words to vote against their own best interests. It's the biggest and most successful con ever perpetrated against a society, affecting generations of Americans. And it has a single purpose: To make the rich richer. Key to this deception has been the false re-defining of key terms, augmented with fear, and the promise of outcomes that will never be delivered. In this his second volume examining the convolution that is American politics, Steven Godby shows how the country already has the very set of circumstances so many claim to fear, and has had it for nearly a century. Here is a step-by-step dissection of the history and development of social democracy in the United States and the forces supporting and frustrating it.