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?

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The thing that gets me is that someone you're talking to will be on the right track, will agree with you on healthcare being a right and then suddenly say something like "Yeah! Insurance is communism! That's why!"

      What do you even say to that when the red scare has misinformed them that hard?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      or libertarian agrees with shit like paying people for their labor that’s actually enough to incentivize working, aka a living wage

      I haven't met a single self-described libertarian that I can think of that didn't like some degree of precarious peonage. They saw it as a good thing and a motivator to the rest of the peasantry.