I got some rednecks to almost agree with me about socialism at a party once.
We were outside this quaint little town that was supported almost entirely by a cement factory. People in the town had been working there for three generations. The entire town depended on the factory for its existence. If that factory closed down the town would die.
But the person who makes that decision doesn’t live in the town. He doesn’t even live in this country. He’s just some rich dude in France who can wipe an American town off the map at a whim. Didn’t we fight a revolution to stop that sort of thing? Shouldn’t the people who do the work have a say in what happens?
I could see the dawning realization in their eyes just before some chud pointed out that was technically socialism and that shut down the discussion.
Not technically; explicitly. Not the garbage they’ve been shoveled down their throats all this time. Real change with real benefits to the workers. But I guess they don’t want that for whatever reason.
I got some rednecks to almost agree with me about socialism at a party once.
We were outside this quaint little town that was supported almost entirely by a cement factory. People in the town had been working there for three generations. The entire town depended on the factory for its existence. If that factory closed down the town would die.
But the person who makes that decision doesn’t live in the town. He doesn’t even live in this country. He’s just some rich dude in France who can wipe an American town off the map at a whim. Didn’t we fight a revolution to stop that sort of thing? Shouldn’t the people who do the work have a say in what happens?
I could see the dawning realization in their eyes just before some chud pointed out that was technically socialism and that shut down the discussion.
Not technically; explicitly. Not the garbage they’ve been shoveled down their throats all this time. Real change with real benefits to the workers. But I guess they don’t want that for whatever reason.
Could have been worse. You might have tricked them into socialism and then seen them turn it nationalist and give ownership to the police chief.