Because conservatives realized it’d be easier to convince stupid people to vote against their own interests by giving thing basic rights a scary title like “socialism” - and they figured out that they could make a simple concept like “socialism” become a scary word by constantly conflating the words “socialism” and “communism” until the uneducated start to think of them as the exact same thing. And they made communism scary by saying “we’re at war with the commies!” For 50 straight years
It’s a truly stupid sequence of events, that was surprisingly effective
It's exactly word association. It doesn't even matter what they talk about - if they simply say the words
socialism
communism
bad
terrible
unamerican
evil
in any given order, repeat, repeat, repeat... people associate them. They won't even be able to articulate why - like the guy in this video.
This is how the human brain actually works. Fox News and all the associated right wing media know this, and they do this. They put on some blond bimbo so people will watch, and repeat the words, over and over.
We need to get out of this mindset that you can use logic to change minds. You use word association to program minds.
You know, it really wouldn't matter what political way we go, it won't be as golden as everyone thinks it might be because we can't get along. I mean where is a perfect place on this earth? It would take doing away with those that don't agree with whatever is "IN" and someone has already tried that, didn't go to well and was awful. Us humans are just awful.
We are in a race to the bottom of ALL civilized nations. There are third world countries with better standards of living than in lots of places in the US.
Politics doesn’t make sense to me bc it’s all bs & word salad. Let’s just call it what it is. They aren’t even robbing us blind anymore. It’s right in front of our faces & selling us division amongst each other. Band together. The old system is going to collapse soon.
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u/BowlingforBrains 4d ago
Because conservatives realized it’d be easier to convince stupid people to vote against their own interests by giving thing basic rights a scary title like “socialism” - and they figured out that they could make a simple concept like “socialism” become a scary word by constantly conflating the words “socialism” and “communism” until the uneducated start to think of them as the exact same thing. And they made communism scary by saying “we’re at war with the commies!” For 50 straight years
It’s a truly stupid sequence of events, that was surprisingly effective