The right calling everything they don't like "socialism", has stopped functioning as an effective attack on those things and started to have the opposite effect, weakening the stigma around the word socialism.
I read that, before Bernie came along, the biggest boost to the DSA's membership was when Republicans called Obama a socialist, so people were like "if this is socialism, it's not so bad", and then read more on socialism.
I don't know what the octopus is on about.
The right calling everything they don't like "socialism", has stopped functioning as an effective attack on those things and started to have the opposite effect, weakening the stigma around the word socialism.
Actually didn't think of it that way and kinda feel dumb now, lol.
Nah not your fault, the Twitter commenter wasn't very clear, but thats my best guess as to what they meant.
I read that, before Bernie came along, the biggest boost to the DSA's membership was when Republicans called Obama a socialist, so people were like "if this is socialism, it's not so bad", and then read more on socialism.