Here's me discovering socialism, new to the (actual) ideas but vibing with them pretty well.
Start talking about it online.
Anarchist: fuck you you stupid fucking tankie.
I had no idea what a tankie was, but I figured out real quick that anarchists are the angsty atheists of the political world.
We are boiled frogs in regards to fascism in the US.
Look at the facts:
We have the largest prison population in the world, which is mostly black. Slavery is still legal as punishment for crime.
We have a surveillance state that watches all of us all the time.
Dissent and protest results in brutal militarized police response.
We have militarized police. With tanks.
We scapegoat immigrants (Biden hardly changed any trump policies.)
Criticism of US policy and actions is instinctively seen as unpatriotic by a large number of citizens.
The existence of our country is largely due to the genocide of native Americans, but that really triggers the national cognitive dissonance.
The wealth of our country was in large part built on the backs of slaves, and continues today in prison labor, but also in regular workers who get a tiny fraction of the wealth they generate for corporations and billionaires.
We do not have a democracy. Corporations and billionaires have captured our government and control 80%+ of the media we consume, easily drowning us in the propaganda they want to push. Nobody is immune, not me, not you. The largest consent manufacturer in history is operating in front of our eyes, but we can't see it because it's the sea we swim in.
Corporations and billionaires control who even gets to run in national elections by promoting those that will toe the line. Why bother fixing the actual elections when you can just control who is allowed to get the job in the first place.
The fascism people are worried about came in quietly and made itself at home. It isn't a Hitler. It isn't a Mussolini. Hell, it isn't even a Trump (although he would make things much worse.) The fascists are who they've always been. Pick your name - corps and billionaires, the 1%, the bourgeois.
It's already here.
When eating chicken wing flats, if you pry the bones apart you can slip them out and you're left with a single piece of meat you can eat whole. You don't have leftover bits in the middle of the two bones.
Also, keep nitrile gloves in your glove box or purse and use them when eating messy things like wings and ribs and cake.
Republicans say the same exact thing about Democrats. And they're both right. Imagine that, common ground we could all get behind. But no, it's not those elites that are our enemies, it's definitely each other. The elite controlled corporate media I consume makes that very clear.
". . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . ."
Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There's a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system.
The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don't feel it, you are benefiting from it.
Every single problem we face is caused or exacerbated by the logic of capitalism.
So yes, capitalism is bad. Sorry that pointing it out triggers you, but it's important to do so that people begin to understand and we can collectively do something about it. Infinite growth on a finite planet isn't feasible and it's killing all of us.
Or, more succinctly, it was inconvenient.
Also, imperialism.
Common misconception. We cruelly hunt the majestic dorit, only to harvest the toes and discard the rest.