Just to clarify, Im talking about my face to face interactions with people. I know social democracy is imperialist, unworkable, and doomed to fail. But I have trouble articulating why socialism is the only way forward. I can point out all the problems with capitalism, though.

There’s too much baggage associated with the S word; people immediately point to 100 billion dead vuvuzela. If I had to think of the biggest stumbling block to convincing people, it’s the controversial history associated with socialism. And I just don’t know enough about each individual “atrocity” and “failure” that happened in order to debunk it all. I feel like in order to convince anyone, you have to know basically the entire history of every socialist country by memory. And if I cared enough I could probably learn, but then I give into my pessimism and think “what’s the point? The people are too propagandized to convert.”

Probably the wrong comm to post in, but I give up trying to think of the right one to mark this as.

  • Dangitbobby [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    the whole government is shit, they don’t give a fuck about working people, we don’t have decent wages or healthcare in the richest country in the world, it’s ridiculous. All we do is spend our money on weapons.

    Blah blah blah, ultimately leading to “it seems like no matter how we vote nothing ever changes, the elite get richer and the working people who actually run this country get fucked”

    Tons of Trumpers would agree with these sentiments.