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It’s not crazy, you just have to examine who is telling you it’s crazy.
Just this morning, I took my kids to a restaurant and was seated near someone who I know for a fact has a net worth well into 8 figures - a bourgeois business owner who sold his business for a fortune (it’s a small town). He was complaining to his friend about how Mamdani was about to “ruin NYC” and how the DSA wants to “indoctrinate kids” into socialism. Most of what he said was just boring Fox News talking points. But really what struck me (and I thought this before I saw this thread) was just how completely shocked he was over the idea that anyone was even considering socialism. It’s like, the fact that right here in capitalist America where “anyone” (i.e him, because these people don’t care about anyone but themselves and maybe their family) can get filthy rich, to advocate for socialism is like saying there’s cheese on the moon, in the bourgeois mind.
If you’re one of the few winners at capitalism, then socialism really does seem crazy. Not only do you have riches beyond what most humans have ever dreamed of thanks to capitalism, but you have likely insulated yourself in a bubble that reinforces the idea this is the best system - the only economic system possible is the one that has enriched me. These capitalists (and maybe some of their acolytes) are the only ones who really think socialism is “crazy”. Seeing socialism as the rational way forward is understood by those who actually examine the economic systems we live under, or those who experience its cruelty.
Don’t let them make you think YOU are the crazy one. The only ones who think capitalism is a good and sane system are the capitalists themselves.