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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Those are some good points/better ways to say it.

Then asserting that these Other People are trying to Take Over.

Yeah that's a more accurate analysis I think. When most people reject socialism out of hand, I don't think they're really engaging with any of it's actual ideas, they're just associating it with scary foreigners.

For a lot of these core ideas, the very pitch-line for them is corrupted. Even removing the question of rich people having an edge, you have these core messages that only justify the status quo.

Yeah. I do get that. There are plenty of these aspects of society that I would want to change to be more fair, compassionate, etc. But when it comes to discussing these ideas with regular people, you need some kind of starting point and using the system's own premises against it I think is a reasonably effective tool to do that. Once we have a political and economic system free from the control of a handful of greedy people, I think it'll be a lot easier to take the next steps.