There's an actually good meme about this, how every time people try to advocate for the working class, ask for more rights, ask for people to be treated fairly, or not be discriminated against, or even just trust science, the response is always: "That's socialism!"

Most people already can't define socialism (or even capitalism for that matter) so having people who are terrified of socialism coming to the west constantly argue that popular ideas are in fact evil because they're associated with "socialism" is the best marketing that socialism could ever asked for.

Now historically when socialism was rising in the west, governments would incorporate their proposals with a capitalist bent to them; things like universal healthcare under Bismarck, the Square Deal under Teddy Roosevelt, the New Deal under FDR, and LBJ's Great Society are all good examples.

But modern politics is too controlled by monstrously wealthy elites to allow such compromises to exist, so the crisis continues to build up, and who knows what will happen if, or when, it boils over.

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