But yes, it sure would be great if over 50% of society would believe
stuff like healthcare should be free, housing is a right, education
should be available to all, etc.
But wait! Billions of people already do, yeah some in the US, but
billions in the global left, in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba,
quite a few in Bolivia and Venezuala, and millions more in movements
like MST and unions like NUMSA, they already believe what you want to
convince people of! What's more, they have even won power and put much
if it into practice. This is why the liberal and progressive sections
of the US left are trained to hate and denounce them.
These messages make feel like we are in the 1980s again. This must be
what it felt to hear the messages of the communist parties in Western
Europe when they reported about the great achievements in the
"socialist" brotherlands.
I can hardly find any match between these narratives and anything people
I trust who used to live or live in countries like China tell me. Even
simple questions like how the healthcare system work in China seem to be
blured by "alternative facts".
This is all too bizarre. Maybe there ist now a post-stalinist or maoist
bubble emerging out of the dynamics of social media madness. Who knows.
Roman
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