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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-controls-the-us-political-system

"Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest."

The malign influence narrative that "joint problems cannot be solved jointly" has to be one of the most successfully pervasive myths by conservatives...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/02/trump-tax-cuts-action-socialism-rich/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html

https://robertreich.org/post/186831208915

https://prospect.org/economy/myth-rugged-individual/

https://www.inequalitymedia.org/the-myth-of-the-rugged-individual

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/11/robert-reich-the-myth-of-the-rugged-individual_partner/

That myth ended social mobility in the USA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/american-dream-broken-upward-mobility-us