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People keep supporting socialism when it is painfully obvious they don't know what the word even means.
Not every positive thing the government does is "socialism"
Social programs instituted by the government are not "socialism"
What you're actually supporting is democratic socialism and has nothing to do with communism or socialism as a philosophy.
Aka the most useless argument that gets repeated on lemmy over and over. It has about as much use as "I'll join the revolution as soon as some other people start it."
Without others you’re just a lone gunman fighting for your own opinions and values, like Ted Kaczynski mailing bombs. Some were for his “cause”, some were for personal revenge. If you publish your manifesto ahead of time you’ll probably get caught, if you publish after and it turns out you’re a selfish nut-job there’s no movement (except for maybe a handful of other nut-jobs). Even if you do succeed, realistically your targets are easily replaceable cogs, not the clockmakers. And the clockmakers are a bureaucracy, even the masters are replaceable, the entire factory has to be torn down. Is it that difficult to understand why we’re not yet at the tipping point where people are ready to abandon their jobs, family and social stability, and possibly lives to fight in the streets? It currently risks everything and gains nothing. Some of it is keyboard warrior talk, but I’d wager there’s a steadily increasing populace slowly preparing themselves for drastic action, they just want it to have real purpose and hopefully achieve something if it’s going to potentially cost them everything.
THANK. YOU. You put it more succinctly where I struggle to.
Right now most even-keeled folks can agree we're all very upset, but it's the same with trying to start a union and march up to the boss's office: Oh sure, everybody enjoys a good grumble in the breakroom but are they gonna back you up? Worse, are they gonna rat you out?
Whether out of ignorance, desperation, hopelessness, or all three, we have a large proportion of people that just wanna "keep their head down." and "stay out of trouble." Even if it means suffering.
Our culture is also pathetically fractured sometimes. Once we get over the "should we do something" hurdle, the question becomes what, who, and how. And everybody's seemingly got a morally-superior position to everyone else, and budging is not an option. Unfortunately while we're all scoring zings on each other, organizing and running roughshod over everyone else comes much more easily for those with an authoritarian bent.
Nah comrade, I want to seize the means of production!