Then we explain it to them until they get it. It’s not hard to explain that capitalists are those who own capital, and liberals are those that support capitalism.
They are often just married to the notion that their principals of liberalism are not mutually exclusive with subjecting capital to public ownership.
I personally find dealing with that separate issue goes nowhere real fast with the average person and alienating them isn’t helpful either so I take what I can get.
People license themselves into believing that that which benefits them is good. They aren’t married to the ideas, they willingly choose to believe them until their material conditions prove them inaccurate through their new lived experience. Red Sails has a series on “brainwashing” that I consider critical reading for anyone wanting to agitate, especially Roderic Day’s Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing.”
Then we explain it to them until they get it. It’s not hard to explain that capitalists are those who own capital, and liberals are those that support capitalism.
They are often just married to the notion that their principals of liberalism are not mutually exclusive with subjecting capital to public ownership.
I personally find dealing with that separate issue goes nowhere real fast with the average person and alienating them isn’t helpful either so I take what I can get.
People license themselves into believing that that which benefits them is good. They aren’t married to the ideas, they willingly choose to believe them until their material conditions prove them inaccurate through their new lived experience. Red Sails has a series on “brainwashing” that I consider critical reading for anyone wanting to agitate, especially Roderic Day’s Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing.”