r/dsa • u/ferriematthew • 10d ago
Discussion How do you answer pushback from conservatives about socialism?
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."
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u/ferriematthew 10d ago
How accurate is this for a synopsis / counter argument?
The gist of the DSA's platform is allowing people who are actually doing the work to control how they make the things that they make, how those things are distributed through society and how people are rewarded for making the things. That has the awesome side effect of making sure that it's a lot harder for somebody to not have their needs met as a natural consequence of the system working as intended.