Yeah, conservatives found out long ago that the more education a person gets, the less likely they are to support conservative politicians. So they have literally sabotaged their own future by gutting education, and we’re now reaping the rewards.
It’s not just lack of good education either, they also found out long ago that misinformation is a powerful tool.
People nowadays have no idea how much support socialism had and was gaining in the first half of the 20th century. Then along came J. Edgar Hoover who used the violence of the state to label leftists as ‘subversives’ and infiltrated and destroy the movements from the inside, created the ‘Red Scare’ and the blacklists, and kicked off an anti-left propaganda campaign that Fox news is continuing to this very day. And to a lesser extent the mainstream media in general.
When I was a kid (I’m 51) none of us know what communism/socialism actually was, but one thing we all knew, it was very, very bad. People are just starting to wake up to the fact that socialism isn’t from the Devil actually, but I’ve seen a sickening amount of ‘leftist’ content creators confidently giving incorrect definitions to both just this month.
What we all have to realize that it’s now on US to do the educating. We have to tell our family, friends, children, and members of the community what those things actually mean and why they are good things. No one else is going to do it if we don’t.
Yeah, conservatives found out long ago that the more education a person gets, the less likely they are to support conservative politicians. So they have literally sabotaged their own future by gutting education, and we’re now reaping the rewards.
It’s not just lack of good education either, they also found out long ago that misinformation is a powerful tool.
People nowadays have no idea how much support socialism had and was gaining in the first half of the 20th century. Then along came J. Edgar Hoover who used the violence of the state to label leftists as ‘subversives’ and infiltrated and destroy the movements from the inside, created the ‘Red Scare’ and the blacklists, and kicked off an anti-left propaganda campaign that Fox news is continuing to this very day. And to a lesser extent the mainstream media in general.
When I was a kid (I’m 51) none of us know what communism/socialism actually was, but one thing we all knew, it was very, very bad. People are just starting to wake up to the fact that socialism isn’t from the Devil actually, but I’ve seen a sickening amount of ‘leftist’ content creators confidently giving incorrect definitions to both just this month.
What we all have to realize that it’s now on US to do the educating. We have to tell our family, friends, children, and members of the community what those things actually mean and why they are good things. No one else is going to do it if we don’t.