“We need capitalists because they have all the money”
Where exactly do they get the money from? Their own work? Of course not!
“I can’t get a job because of migrants!”
Employers are the ones who decide who gets a job or not. Blame them, not the immigrants they’re exploiting.
“I don’t want my tax money to go to bums/single mothers/immigrants/xyz group”
But you’re fine with bourgeois parasites freely taking a portion of your labour to enrich themselves?
“Full employment/universal healthcare/eradication of homelessness/cheap transport/anything good is impossible!”
No they aren’t.
“Capitalism isn’t perfect, but gommunism is le hecking evil!”
No it isn’t.
i wish i could offer wise words but i’m right there with you ( @KalergiPlanner@lemmygrad.ml ) right now.
i’ve spent the last 16ish weeks going down rabbit holes related to the epstein files, and one of them made me aware that the freedom of information act has refuted a lot of popularly held narratives.
the fact that 1) these are documents certified to be 100% true by the american government itself — not some random conspiracy theory — and 2) they’ve been in the public domain since 1978, yet the overwhelming majority still believes the mainstream propaganda, leaves me with the depressing conclusion that maga is just a tiny subset of a much larger western liberal cult that encompasses every single person you’ve likely ever met or will ever meet.
it’s one thing for individuals or even groups of people to be intentionally misinformed via indoctrination and by (seemingly to them) questionable sources. but when it’s on a global scale — where the narrative dismisses the information provided by the very ones who created the misinformation — that’s something on a whole other level that i don’t know how to digest.
it also makes me deeply skeptical that reversing this propaganda is possible given how widespread and deeply entrenched it is to reach this scale; effectively rendering a peaceful resolution with others outside the western capitalist world impossible.