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I live in a fairly conservative area that’s working class.
People intuitively understand when you describe how much capitalism sucks because they’re living it.
If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.
If you can do that, you’ll find that they’re primed to reject capitalism, they just don’t know it yet.
“These rich fuckers don’t give a shit about us, but they have no problems helping each other out.”
“Everybody’s boss is the same, they want you to work harder, more hours, and do it all for less money. They want us to be able to barely survive.”
“The only way we can make them change is to all work together. They’ll screw over each one of us individually, but if we’re together they’ll know it’s actually them who needs us.”
If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.
Extending your metaphor, this is what your average American’s brain looks like. There is a lot of propaganda and social conditioning working against you here.
To my endless frustration leftwing thought and policy is popular until someone knows it’s left wing.
I spend so much time talking to people and skirting around terminology/avoiding describing things in clear terms because they set off alarm bells.
As you say everyone gets that we’re screwed and pitted against each other while dipshits up top have their snouts in the trough. There is a spectrum on how far we ought to go to address this but it’s also really hard to get any action out of people because they’ll nod along until you try point them at a union or something and then the propaganda kicks in.
