I work in a construction-adjascent industry, so I interact with chuds daily. Folks with Trump stickers on their hard hats and welders masks aren't uncommon.
What I do, to start out, is act dumb. Some people don't talk politics at all, which is alright. You can talk to people about socialism without talking about what most people think of as politics. A lot of people in construction know the rate that their company charges for their labor, or the quoted price for the job they're currently on, and pointing out and complaining about the huge difference between that and our wages isn't political to most people, for example.
Some people will start talking about a recent event, clearly trying to probe you out. I avoid whatever the lib response is, because it's usually at least partially wrong, and chuds are already innoculated against it by their preferred right wing dork, while also not going for the straight theoretical communist response. I say something that they're not going to expect that's also not bad.
As an aside, when I found out that Bernie had dropped out, I was in a work truck with a full crew getting lunch. A guy in the backseat was scrolling Facebook and said "Oh shit, Bernie Sanders dropped out." The truck was silent. Working people, even those with a mild case of right wing brainworms, know where their bread is buttered. They'll shit on Pelosi, and Schumer, and Clinton, and Biden all day long. But from most of the people I've worked with, Sanders doesn't get that kind of response. People have got a certain respect for him, and are clearly open to left ideas. People who would otherwise support the right.
Now, some people will open up with a screed that could've been written for Breitbart. "Damn, that's crazy" gets me a lot of milage. You gotta pick your moments with these people, but the ones you get can be great. Like, when the Pfizer vaccine was looking like it was going to be ready soon, after the election, and chuds were saying it was all part of a conspiracy to make Trump look bad, I got to break out "Dude, Trump said that there'd be a vaccine before the end of the year" and it broke their fucking brain lmao.
But there are a few people who are left of lib that I work with. A coworker of mine had seen a train on another jobsite where someone had painted information about violence against and abductions of native women, and that was an experience that had clearly effected him. There's an architect I work with sometimes who won't come out and say that he's a leftist, but his politics are too good to be a lib.
I work in a construction-adjascent industry, so I interact with chuds daily. Folks with Trump stickers on their hard hats and welders masks aren't uncommon.
What I do, to start out, is act dumb. Some people don't talk politics at all, which is alright. You can talk to people about socialism without talking about what most people think of as politics. A lot of people in construction know the rate that their company charges for their labor, or the quoted price for the job they're currently on, and pointing out and complaining about the huge difference between that and our wages isn't political to most people, for example.
Some people will start talking about a recent event, clearly trying to probe you out. I avoid whatever the lib response is, because it's usually at least partially wrong, and chuds are already innoculated against it by their preferred right wing dork, while also not going for the straight theoretical communist response. I say something that they're not going to expect that's also not bad.
As an aside, when I found out that Bernie had dropped out, I was in a work truck with a full crew getting lunch. A guy in the backseat was scrolling Facebook and said "Oh shit, Bernie Sanders dropped out." The truck was silent. Working people, even those with a mild case of right wing brainworms, know where their bread is buttered. They'll shit on Pelosi, and Schumer, and Clinton, and Biden all day long. But from most of the people I've worked with, Sanders doesn't get that kind of response. People have got a certain respect for him, and are clearly open to left ideas. People who would otherwise support the right.
Now, some people will open up with a screed that could've been written for Breitbart. "Damn, that's crazy" gets me a lot of milage. You gotta pick your moments with these people, but the ones you get can be great. Like, when the Pfizer vaccine was looking like it was going to be ready soon, after the election, and chuds were saying it was all part of a conspiracy to make Trump look bad, I got to break out "Dude, Trump said that there'd be a vaccine before the end of the year" and it broke their fucking brain lmao.
But there are a few people who are left of lib that I work with. A coworker of mine had seen a train on another jobsite where someone had painted information about violence against and abductions of native women, and that was an experience that had clearly effected him. There's an architect I work with sometimes who won't come out and say that he's a leftist, but his politics are too good to be a lib.
We all laugh at anti-Biden memes, though.