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This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a <mark>new parlor game</mark> in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a '''<mark>dangerous 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 <mark>American history made by '''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 <mark>new parlor game</mark> in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a '''<mark>dangerous 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 <mark>American history made by '''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 '''<mark>dangerous new 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 '''<mark>dangerous new 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>. | ||
— Dr. | — Dr. Albert E. Burke, [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] | ||
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