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And yet how much time do they spend watching TV or planning vacations? It seems I am turning into @DarthCoin with my lack of sympathy for people.
I’ll be real with you, I legitimately know more than a few folks that really don’t. They’re doing their best.
That said, I know a whole other crew (more than a couple people) who being very serious will say they get their news from late night shows. I don’t even respect the person that gets all their info from legacy news, but that’s a whole new level of volitional ignorance.
When you mostly hear criticism of these ideas from hypocrites on the right who really are in favor of a different flavor of socialism lite and do not strike at the root of the issue with integrity... it makes sense.
I firmly believe we are reaping what we sowed in the cold war era. Former socialists overtook the conservative movement and did a piss poor job refuting the ideas of Marx. It was all about the Red Scare and not a rejection of the issues with socialism that have nothing to do with the USSR. I've watched US propaganda films from the 50s and 60s and they largely suck at explaining the core problems with socialism.
Central planning, lack of a pricing system. Price controls. I could go on. The US has done all of these in spades and we see it doesn't work. The US is doomed largely because of this failure to reject socialism. The answer is freedom but most people don't want that.
We reap what we sow.
Sure, and I know for many it already is. I just personally know a lot of folks that legitimately think this stuff and have so much going on in life that it’s really unrealistic to expect them to learn where they’re at. Part of why I talk kids’ ears off about this stuff.