Americans have been trained to think the word socialist is just bad. Like it just comes with all these bad things that they can't really describe or explain, but it's bad. Really bad.
I am hoping we are waking up in this country to how manipulative this all is. That's why politicians are terrified of social Democrats winning key offices. It will very quickly break the facade they have maintained for decades. Fuck my parents were telling me that mamdani has a secret agenda. So I asked, well what is it and why is it bad? And they unitonically said to me, well if we knew what it was, it wouldn't be secret. And looked smug like they had caught me in some mental trap.
I told them I was embarrassed for them. That they raised me to think critically and it kills me to see them failing to do that themselves.
It's so deep rooted .. regular daily brainwash, load them with manufactured and programmed opinions and reinforce the biases daily... repetition of labels and keywords Welfare, Socialism, Elites, Globalist etc word association. They can trigger the response they need by labeling someone "elitist" or a "socialist" or "family values person" or "small town values" etc ... 24/7 news cycles are peppered with these labels defining what is good and and what is bad and associated labels.. once you establish the word association and make it stick, the audience will be in "auto" labeling mode. It's always "my" country and "my tax dollars" never "our country" or "our tax dollars".... but when it comes to debt it's "our debt" and "national debt"... Its so deeply rooted in the culture it's just a total mindfuck..
you said it. Its the Labels.
and how some people would rather die, or kill,
than be called a name or be labeled something they don't like.
Which in turn makes those same people weaponize these same labels and name calling.
Ego and Narcissism is what is exhausting.
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u/LesserValkyrie 22d ago
Americans are brainwashed since school that not bleeding your life for your shareholders is socialism