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I have only ever met open leftists at events or meetings dedicated to socialist stuff, like protests or volunteer work or whatever. I briefly met a person who said she knew who Marx was and read some of his books, but it turned out she actually meant Kant and confused their names. Met another guy once who said he loved the Soviet Union, but he was also very confused and turns out he meant Israel. I meet a lot of extremely confused people.
Otherwise 99% of people I interact with either do not care or are complete fascist style reactionaries (about a 50/50 split). I think at this point if I met an open commie type in the wild I’d fall to their feet in shock. I’m losing my mind btw
I don’t know where you meet these people and i can’t ask bc i don’t want you to doxx yourself, but jfc you do run into some bizarre mfers.
I also ask people weird and personal questions after just meeting them so I’ve always thought it’s more likely that I’m the bizarre one and most people simply don’t have an opportunity to say the weirdest things they believe. I’m from Texas if that explains anything
It’s weird, I’m solidly in “Trump Country” too. All the owners and shit head suburbanites out here are total zombies, but obviously all the service workers and a decent portion of the sub $100k crowd is really progressive.
Probably because none of them have ever owned a home and have no hopes of owning a home and are just happy when rent is below 50% of their wages.
I’m starting a commie reading group and dispersing Parenti and Lenin amongst the local proles though and telling them to pass the books on when they finish and come to me for more lol
