We are an extremely rightwing society and it is normalized to the point that my fellow citizens can’t even accurately identify Leftist policies. Socialism is considered evil. Our propaganda machine has done its job very effectively for decades.
Well, I do consider socialism to be “evil” because quite often it is non-voluntary. I am 100% on board with voluntary socialism (e.g. unions and co-ops), but I’m very much a fan of consent and really don’t want others to be making decisions for me. A lot of policies I support could be considered “socialist,” but I refuse to identify as socialist because of the proximity to forms that absolutely seek to take away individual self-determinism.
We are an extremely rightwing society and it is normalized to the point that my fellow citizens can’t even accurately identify Leftist policies. Socialism is considered evil. Our propaganda machine has done its job very effectively for decades.
Well, I do consider socialism to be “evil” because quite often it is non-voluntary. I am 100% on board with voluntary socialism (e.g. unions and co-ops), but I’m very much a fan of consent and really don’t want others to be making decisions for me. A lot of policies I support could be considered “socialist,” but I refuse to identify as socialist because of the proximity to forms that absolutely seek to take away individual self-determinism.
Consider the regimes evil. Socialism is blameless.