How are we supposed to reach people when they've been taught that greed is good, corporations are communists, up is down, and that liberals are leftists?
How are we supposed to reach people when they've been taught that greed is good, corporations are communists, up is down, and that liberals are leftists?
best way to think about it is this. The people you're talking about are confused because they only know about their own experiences. That makes them malleable, or I mean like, it means they will probably start to change their ideas once they have different experiences. They're products of the societies they live in.
If their workplace is unionized and they get higher pay, or if they start gaining better access to housing and healthcare, or if they start encountering leftism as a real force in their lives. If that happens, their perception of reality is going to change. Movements have always had to deal with backwards and reactionary populations. What did they do? They gave the backwards people a better existence, and that changed how the people think.
We're only different because we fell off the track at some point. I guess a lot of us read a bunch of books, or struggle with a disability, or maybe we're trans or gay and all of those things tend to make people more leftist. We just ended up on the side of things that hasn't been fully devoured by mainstream ideology quite yet, or maybe it's just hard to make us into a product right now. In any case, try to believe in people more. It'll be ok. :meow-hug:
Direct action, propaganda of the deed.
Yeah, like that. Most people are confused because they've had no experience outside of some vague propaganda they heard in school, so of course they're going to think corporations are communist. They haven't seen anything to prove them otherwise yet, so maybe it's our job to show them who we are.