I was buying something at a small shop and for some reason the shop owner decided to talk about how much the government ruins business through taxes, how the government shouldn’t be in business, and how there is too much socialism in government. Maybe I look like a libertarian lol.
I did my best to ask him what he meant to try and get him thinking and it seemed to help a bit. I even pulled a “any socialist I’ve talked to doesn’t believe in any of that”.
I seem to have a lot of these conversations, even when I’m minding my own business. Have any of you had luck with breaking down preconceived notions others may have? I’d just like to be better prepared since apparently this is just something that happens to me.
In the case of shop owners, you can point out how corporations like Amazon can spend speculative money on undercutting smaller businesses like theirs through operations like the Gazelle Project and pay barely any taxes, being effectively subsidized by smaller businesses like theirs.
Despite being theoretically flawed, we can’t deny the success of Bernie Sanders’s phrase “in this country we have socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor” among the capitalistpilled Yankees.
I hadn’t thought about that, I still have the (liberal) knee jerk reaction to defend what a government could be, when they complain about the government and taxes. I need to move past this I think, and focus more on how they fuck everyone but big business.
Afterall, the small shop owner has more in common with us than they do with Bozos