This has been happening for decades.
Just the other day someone posted a video from the 80s when more strict seatbelt and drinking + driving laws came into place.
The chuds were all bleating about communism…
It was common where I grew up well into the 90s for people to go on about how seat belts “trap” you in a car during a wreck… as opposed to flinging you from it to die on the road instead, I guess?
capitalism is when hooray and communism is when boo
“BECAUSE ALL OF THESE COMMUNISTS ARE RUNNING THE BIG BUSINESSES” -an actual thing I’ve heard a man say in the Midwest.
I’m under the impression these people play politics like sports and it’s more about their ‘team’ winning and any actual ideology plays second fiddle.
“Blackrock is communist because they have a diversity equity and inclusion policy and are taking over the world so they can enforce it!”
Is one I’ve seen.
I used to live in central Louisiana. When I talked to the people I used to work with, it was very clear that they are in favor of what would be considered to be socialist. The MAGA folks really can be comrades if we just reach out to them like human beings and try to communicate to them on their level without being too condescending.
The hard part will be convincing them that people they don’t like deserve basic human rights. The right wing religious propaganda has really taken hold of them in that regard.
