Seriously, I wanna fucking leave my house every fucking day. They work everyday, all day and are exploited for their work, have bad health that they have no time to take care of and are so devoted to defending millionaires for "creating jobs" that they cannot accept that what creates value is labour. They hate the government and see it as bad, I agree, the bourgeois democracy is terrible, but when I say that, they don't believe in it. State owned equals inherently bad, seriously, its so hard to see the truth and ALMOST EVERYONE around you is a chud, a lib or at best a soc dem. And thank god for soc dems here, because at least they aren't anti-communist, at least some of them. Every fucking time I have to argue with a lib, I want to organize harder
Yeah my dad is quite the chud too. I still love him though, but it's hard to connect with someone who doesn't live in the same plane of reality as you. With the fascists he gets his news from, they always start with a grain of truth. So at least we were both able to talk shit about the military industrial complex the other day. But for him, he thinks it's just a matter of voting in the right guy to "drain the swamp" and make things "constitutional" again. For me, as a straight up communist, I don't even think our settler colonial genocidal slave state even has a right to exist. But I think he'd have a shit fit if he knew I was actually communist lol.
It's really sad because I can see the ways his programming has harmed himself and our family, and mostly himself, but I don't know if he'll ever be able to see that.
Even Rush Limbaugh (may he rest in piss) used this strategy. It's honestly kind of impressive how right wing personalities can segue from easily agreeable things to outright conspiracies in just a few breaths.
"The government sucks, we must put this sock puppet of the bourgeoisie in the presidency"
The signature chud propaganda move is saying true things for 30% of a sentence and then falling off a cliff.
It's really hard to connect in anything that touches work or anything remotely related to politics. Getting news from fash types during your whole life must really make a number on someones head. He is nice and we do talk for a long time occasionally, but holy shit is he a chud