Haha it's ok I do get some of this. There is an entrenched belief among a lot of people in the country that they "understand economics" and yet they'll use the BBC's old description of the national debt being like household debt whenever you talk about spending. They are people that fundamentally know nothing but believe they are very knowledgable.

I aim to get away from this crowd and deeper into poorer groups. I particularly like getting into the community via allotments, which tend to have pretty strong networks of people that you can tap into to meet groups of very poor but well connected people in a local area. The poorer people in an area tend to know shit-load of the locals because I guess when you're poor your social group forcefully must be closer and closer to home.

There's a lot of brainworms that exists in these spaces, especially if they read anything american, I come across q anon stuff more frequently than I want to, but they're easier people to talk to because they fundamentally feel that SOMETHING is fucking them over. A lot of them redirect that to a vague "establishment" or illuminati conspiracyism and shit but it's the feeling of exploitation. If you know any people into that kind of shit, they can be redirected towards marxist things that better explain the feelings they have more clearly.

I do think the way you carry yourself is a major factor here too. Being entirely unflinching and unembarrassed tends to get me a much better response from people than many years ago when I carried myself with more uncertainty. People feed off of it in one direction or the other.