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This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a dangerous <mark>game of name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in. | This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a dangerous <mark>game of name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in. | ||
Americans who play this dangerous new <mark>game of "creeping socialism"</mark> see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>. | Americans who play this dangerous new <mark>game of "creeping socialism"</mark> see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>. | ||
— <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/the-burke-center-for-environmental-and-international-studies The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies | — <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/environmentalist Environmentalist] | [https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/the-burke-center-for-environmental-and-international-studies The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies]</span> | ||
<html><div class="left vid margin-r" style="width:160px; clear:both;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hwqdQ0SkjQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>Daniel Boone (TV series) — theme song</div></html>[[wikipedia:Daniel_Boone_(1964_TV_series)|Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)]] | Wikipedia — popular shortly after Dr. Burke published his book ''Enough Good Men'' (Nov 1962) that referenced "elbowroom". | <html><div class="left vid margin-r" style="width:160px; clear:both;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hwqdQ0SkjQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>Daniel Boone (TV series) — theme song</div></html>[[wikipedia:Daniel_Boone_(1964_TV_series)|Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)]] | Wikipedia — popular shortly after Dr. Burke published his book ''Enough Good Men'' (Nov 1962) that referenced "elbowroom". | ||