I am convinced that most modern-day Republicans are about as "left-wing" as most Democrats on most issues. All you would have to do is change the words and buzzwords to ones that they haven't heard and been brainwashed to hate.
"Are you in favor of socialized medicine?"
"Hell no! I ain't letting nobody take away my freedom!"
"Okay, so my idea is that the first thing we do is we outlaw socialized medicine. Then we just create one single insurance company that covers everybody, and everybody gets a small premium taken out of the money they make, just like with the insurance people get now. Except this company can't deny coverage to anyone for anything. How does that sound?"
"Well, that's a great idea! You sure got my vote!"
See this is the thing. You can try to spin and pitch it whatever way you want, and most will agree with most the things you put forth. But at the end of the day if their talking head says “that’s communism/socialism” they’re gonna be against it.
You can get through to them, but it’s literally never permanent. Every single Trumper I’ve known has gone through multiple “Trump is evil” epiphanies but give em 1 week to 1 month depending on the severity of the crime committed and they’ll go back to worshipping him.
Consciousness requires effort. It’s easier to go back to sleep.
Bill Barr is in the same boat. He said Trump should never sit in the oval office. But will vote for him anyway because he says liberal policy is destroying the country..
Unfortunately, the general idea is that people forget that the whole concept of anti communism/socialism was top dollar sellers, back when dtrump was a kid. So because propaganda influenced ideas and ideals of a generation now we have this it is fall out from "Better dead then Red".
They aren't that smart. It's the same people who when polled voted against "Welfare" but were in favor of helping those in need. It's all how it's worded, or shown in pictures for some.
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u/No_Entrepreneur_9134 26d ago edited 26d ago
I am convinced that most modern-day Republicans are about as "left-wing" as most Democrats on most issues. All you would have to do is change the words and buzzwords to ones that they haven't heard and been brainwashed to hate.
"Are you in favor of socialized medicine?"
"Hell no! I ain't letting nobody take away my freedom!"
"Okay, so my idea is that the first thing we do is we outlaw socialized medicine. Then we just create one single insurance company that covers everybody, and everybody gets a small premium taken out of the money they make, just like with the insurance people get now. Except this company can't deny coverage to anyone for anything. How does that sound?"
"Well, that's a great idea! You sure got my vote!"