Yeah it's a slow process, but I hope I've made a little progress at least. It doesn't help that he's in the military, so even when I get him to agree on points like the US not allowing any competing system to succeed or fail on it's own terms, it doesn't automatically follow that that's a bad thing. I think the biggest sticking point is that he on some level feels like a change to socialism/communism would negatively impact his lifestyle, and he isn't quite willing to hold the position that broad positive change would be worth it to him. I don't even know that he consciously realizes that, but that's more or less what it always ends up at. That and the incessant belief that any problems with capitalism can be fixed through reform.

I'm hoping I can get him there, but I feel like it won't click for him until he realizes on his own that even if reform was hypothetically a path forward, our government is so broken and dysfunctional that not even milquetoast reform is foreseeable at this point. I'll still be working on it though, however slow it is