> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 4 evergreens</em></s> #### [[Capitalism runs on class division]] [[Capitalism]] cannot function unless the people are separated into a class of workers and class of owners. Said another way, [[Capitalism]] would fail if everyone was a capitalist. One of the successes of the [[Rise of Modern Conservatism]] is to have convinced [[Conservatism|Conservatives]] that [[capitalism]] works for the working class. [[McCarthyism is an attack on totalitarianism not communism]], but demonizing [[Communism]] works. Over the past sixty years Conservatives have been largely successful in shifting the [[Overton window]] right enough that [[Conservatism states that conspiracy is more believable that cooperation|conspiracy is more believable that cooperation]]. ^0c0a41 [[Ronald Reagan invented modern conservatism]], and claimed to support [[supply-side economics]], but eventually [[Anti-government stances lead to economic crashes]] and Regan had to up government spending to support the [[middle class]]. In spite of this, the myth of "trickle-down [[economics]]" continued for years, because [[Republican voters do not hold their leaders accountable]]. ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING *edited January 19, 2022* **Topics**:: [[capitalism]], [[human advancement]], [[Marxism]]