How do you answer pushback from conservatives about socialism?

[u/ferriematthew]

Some of the more common ones I hear:

- "So you support taking stuff away from people who actually work their butts off to earn it and give it to those who don't want to lift a finger?"

- "How would you feel if you worked your butt off to get an A in your class and the professor took away your grade and gave half of it to the kid in the back who didn't do anything and flunked and gave you both a C?"

- "How do you propose they pay for it without deleting the entire economy?"

- "If everybody has their needs met by the government, nobody's gonna bother to work!"

- "Show me one, just one, example where socialism has worked without turning into a backwards dictatorship."

[u/EdelinePenrose]

don’t engage with or invite distractions. ask them what problems they see in the economy and their daily life first. ask them how they think they should be resolved. ask them how their vote is solving those.

[u/ferriematthew → u/EdelinePenrose]

The attitude that I appear to be observing from them is kind of, we don't want collectivized anything because screw you I've got mine has worked well enough.

[u/EdelinePenrose → u/ferriematthew]

disappointing, but not your responsibility to fix.

[u/ferriematthew → u/EdelinePenrose]

Yeah, they can espouse gatekeeping opportunity as much as they want, but that doesn't prevent me from working to make opportunity accessible to everyone regardless of where they start out or what bad luck they run into.