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How do false, imaginary things dominate Americans so much? Tulips tulips

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Perhaps the leading example is "Marxism". Something that essentially does not exist, and has no chance of existing, in the US, and that the people who are obsessed with it have nearly no idea about.

And yes, it is one of the two most dominant 'things' that dominate Americans' political views on economic policy. Tulips, an irrelevant fantasy. And people CALLING things that do exist "Marxism", when they are not, only proves the point rather than disproving it.

How is that? People would love to have some idea in economics become well-known and influence public opinion. But they can't get one one-thousandth as much attention for the truth, as the fantasy of "Marxism" gets from Americans. Given that no one is advocating Marxism, think what that says about the power of how dominant it is anyway. There's a lot to learn and think about there.

But that's just the leading example. It happens with countless things.

Caravans invading the US, back when half the country thought they or someone they knew would catch ebola (and that same half thinks the pandemic that IS real is a hoax), that climate change is a lie, on and on - but probably the most bizarre one is "Q" theories.

Can you imagine, if someone had just made up, say, "Smithism" 200 years ago, an economic system where everyone burns lots of money, imagine that non-existent thing becoming the dominant thing Americans fear in economics, with no one advocating it? And yet, that's what's basically happening with "Marxism". There was a cold war where that explains some interest in "communism", but that doesn't begin to explain this century.
 
Perhaps the leading example is "Marxism". Something that essentially does not exist, and has no chance of existing
This is the same thing mobsters say, though they do far less harm than Marxists.
 
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