Intro:
I remember being 14 years old in 2016 and listening to my grandparents rage on and on about free healthcare. I remember being 15 and going online find other people talking about how great it was and how everyone should have free healthcare from the government. I remember reading a comment from someone who claimed to be from Germany calling the United States cruel and that we hate poor people. I think out of all the comments I read that one stuck with me. Throughout our childhoods we are taught we should share and this is reinforced through every stage of our lives. Yet we are so against using our money to share government services with other people. How did Americans become so divided over this one thing to the point we are the only industrialized country to not have universal healthcare?
Main points:
Slide 1
- We hate it cause of propaganda from WWI
- German Healthcare system was used by the British and American government as a way to alienate the Germans.
Slide 2
Slide 3
- The Cold War
- The un-American Committee
- Charlie Chaplin
Slide 4
- Views on it today with Stats about how mixed people are about it.
Closing:
In all our history classes we are taught that we need to look through propaganda. That’s it’s an awful vile thing we need to spot and look past. So why are letting this propaganda, whether it be from the Cold War or WWI effect us today? Thank you for your time.