Cartoon from 60 yrs ago tells the story of today.....

"When anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other thought class warfare, race hatred, or religious intolerance you know that person seeks to rob us of our freedom." Sounds alot like the republicans to me.

"Working together to produce a ever greater abundance of material and spiritual values for all. That is the secret of American prosperity."

Well said. Oh Communism. Now if only more people could truly understand this instead of being at each other throats.

Very well put...and from a cartoon even!

gender......femin-i-s-m? Disunity? Pit one(gender)against the other through class warfare(mysandry)? Hatred? Takes away freedom(V.A.W.A.)? Communism(indoctrination)? Marxism(indoctrination)?...Yes, feminism.

An interesting combination of some contemporary and older American myths. The disillusionment with "isms" would become much more popular in the 1950's. Isn't it nice how all these issues between management, labor and farmers all got worked out nicely because they "worked together?"

It's funny that the video mentions the 1890's, because none of that was going on then. The myth of the inventor came about as a desperate solution to the problem of class mobility in America in an era when unfettered Capitalism had monopolized everything and caused some of the worst depressions and revolts in American history.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Homestead Strike, the Southwestern Railroad Strike of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1892 (a strike so large it shut down shipping for the entire country) were the largest civil uprisings in American history. They were all put down by mercenaries or state and federal troops. None of them accomplished the goals that make labor a sane enterprise today. In fact, none of them accomplished anything because of those two wonderful words that video mentioned.

Class warfare, which is ironically only called that when the poor attempt to improve their conditions, and never called such when the rich exploited them, bribed their government and treated them like slaves.

Nowadays we don't bother calling it that, it's just called socialism instead, even when it's not.

It wasn't until a Republican, a man named Teddy Roosevelt, started putting his fist down on private enterprise that things got better. He used things like the Sherman anti-trust act to put a check on the power of Corporate Industrialists over out society.

But it wouldn't be enough, for decades up until even the time of this video America would intervene in foreign countries on behalf of its private industry, who had really become the government with the power of their international enterprises.

And then the video, conveniently, mentions that we have the highest "total" wages in the world. hoping that the viewer will forget that the United States had just come out unscathed of a war that had demolished the industry of all other countries and that "total" salary doesn't translate into "average" salary. He also left out that America had the highest rate of worker fatalities and accidents until the government intervened.

It's hard to know where to begin with this video, so much is wrong. But it hides with an "aw shucks" attitude and with questions of "but what about private property and freedom" as if they were even being questioned.

But then I remembered, oh yeah, it's propaganda.

Any video which tries to lull you to sleep rather than raise you to action or awareness through further study is propaganda. This is a video that encourages silence, not discussion.

But if you have a free mind, it's easy to see through that.

Wow...That anyone can watch this and not see the sexism is beyond me.

I guess little timmmay would like to see women back in the kitchens, barefoot, pregnant and with black eyes if they want to question their misogynist husbands.

Right timmmay?

Folks, it obviously has old school propaganda in it, but I posted it so we could relate it to what our Govt is doing today...... Its a little something called "read between the lines".......

I am also wondering what would make s3th think Timmay thinks that way.....

the republican party should see this

Thank you for the post, should be required viewing for all politicians!

This cartoon reminds me of the 'duck and cover' propaganda videos from the cold war. It's just another product of the red scare era. Not that im trying to be a proponent of socialism but this video is not really relevant to our current reality which is an economic mess brought upon by a-little-too-free enterprise. We need to adapt to the situation at hand in order to continue to be a great nation.

It is like propaganda as is the Daily Show.