Just wondering what everyone thinks about this. In almost every place I’ve worked coworkers with right wing beliefs are never shy about giving their opinion and views on things.
The major talking points are usually variations of stuff like: we spend to much on beneficiaries and they should stop being lazy and get a job. That poor people have kids so they can get free money from the government. We need or be tougher on crime. Even absurd shit like being outraged that a homeless person had a smartphone and indulging in such lavishness is why they’re homeless etc etc
Some of the shit I hear from otherwise seemingly lovely people is insane. I feel like I have to be so much more measured and have all my ‘evidence’ ready to defend my commie beliefs while these people can just say whatever bullshit they want and everybody just kinda nods in agreement.
Is this a normal thing in the Angloverse? Is it because their views are essentially the status quo already and they have just fully internalised the capitalist propeganda?
Please let me know
Same here, I know a guy who has probably said all of these. He’s also highly anti communist, secretely fond of our previous dictators, and ironically his grandfather was put into exile during the civil war for being with the communists.
Otherwise he’s a pretty good guy, it’s probably his fucked childhood and parents that made him like this.
I just conclude that the emptier you are the more you need to intervene with your bullshit beliefs.
Young people are also propagandised as fuck
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism