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Please anyone but “The Turd” he’s just another slimy businessman and will grift this country out of more money.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j_6bscCG7OA

The cowboys are probably the more at divisive team in the country.

This quote is an example of what I am talking about though. Roosevelt had to take great strides to ease the great depression, because of mass protest movements at the time openly led by socialist/communist parties, but he could not go so far as to address the economic system that created the great depression. Nor could the capitalist class allow these policies to be associated with the socialists that visibly fought for them. Doing so would threaten the power of capital; this is not long after the bolshevik revolution that created the USSR, so there was major fears of similar movements taking root in the US.

This is not Truman defending the new deal, this is him distancing the new deal from socialism.

The new deal was not socialist, which is by design, but it was made up of things that socialists would have certainly fought for and taken even further if their effort was sincerely meant to achieve socialism.

It's time to stop letting socialism be used as a scare word. Sure, the loudest ones will continue to bury their heads in the sand, but those people weren't going to be won over anyways. Furthermore, you aren't going to win people over by talking down to them, and you cannot address their needs in a sincere manner if your base assumption is that they aren't intelligent enough to understand their own lives.

edit: I'm also not suggesting that we should be fighting over "the word and meaning of socialism"; precisely the opposite, in fact. I'm saying that we should be living examples of what a socialist is and what socialists advocate for. We should be seen in our communities doing the ground work of organizing and being role models for what we believe in.

The difference between what we are accused of and what we are actually doing is stark, which can't be pointed out if we're constantly distancing ourselves from anyone that calls themselves socialist simply because we're afraid of the word. There is so much present day and past evidence; from the rich history that was erased in the red scare and all of this anti-socialist sentiment; for us to draw on instead of trying to distance ourselves from the reality that what we advocate for is anti-capitalist in nature.

the defining trait of the Trump voters is that they're so scared that they will vote for whoever makes them feel safe while asking absolutely nothing of them except cowed obedience

Buddy half of American voters voted for trump.

Incorrect. Only 63.7% of eligible voters turned out to vote in the 2024 US General Election.

That comes out to around 155 million voters, of which around 77 million voted for Trump or ~49.8%. Democrats on the other hand got around 75 million or ~48.3%. of the vote.

This comes out to ~31.7% of eligible voters voting Republican with ~30.8% voting Democrat.

Less than a third of Americans wanted Trump in office, not half. Let's get the facts straight.

The reality is that the majority of American voters

~31.7% of Americans is not a majority, according to the American Heritage Dictionary.

are stupid, lazy, or both.

Have you considered that the actions of Republicans gerrymandering voting districts to hell and passing anti-voting laws and policies, that the actions of Democrats failing to represent their constituents by veering more and more Right, and that the pressures of capitalism, rising inflation, stagnating wages, and a lack of a national holiday where people take off work to go exercise their civic duties are reasons for why more people don't go out and vote?

Noooooooo, that can't be. Voters are stupid. Voters are racist. Voters are lazy. And it isn't the system that has stripped away their material needs that is the problem.

If American voters are as stupid as you claim then it shouldn't be hard to trick them into changing their vote.

Simultaneously, American voters are "stupid, lazy, or both", but intelligent and well-read enough to understand what you mean when you explain the difference between social welfare and outright socialism as you are backpedaling on being a socialist.

That being said; I'm not talking about progressive policies, I'm talking about socialism. There might be plenty of progressive policies between here and socialism, but the end of that side of the spectrum is socialism.

They will chose that latter, for sure.

Yeah, I've noticed that about the left in general, that the perfect is always the enemy of the good. Meanwhile the right's out there like "yeah, a lot of you are going to die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".