Which we should see as an excellent radicalization and growth opportunity!
It can be exhausting explaining ourselves again and again, always met with the same accusations and assumptions born from the mythos spun by our enemies.
However, we must remember these people are people, and many people change their minds given enough information, delivered with firm respect. For every belligerent person who appears like they wouldn’t change their mind for anything, there are 10 people quietly lurking who are more on-the-fence. Even those who regurgitate insults and contempt may change their mind when the stars align!
These people are not our enemies, they are victims to the greatest campaign of dishonesty in human history! It is our duty to draw out the poison and deliver the medicine!
I know many comrades here have very difficult lives and do not have the patience or energy to deal with such people. Please do not exhaust yourself interacting with liberals, and allow comrades with more energy to deal with them.
Radicalizing online is not the end-all be-all, but at this point in the psychological war for those within the Anglosphere, every victory is invaluable!!!
That goes both ways though. Each side thinking they are right, the main character, impervious to being lied to and definitely on the right side of history. Or can you not also be fooled? Cause I know I have been, by both sides…
The difference between us and liberals is that we not only can admit to being fooled, we also actively seek out whether if we’ve been fooled.
We realize no one is immune to propaganda and act accordingly. And we mean no one.
Yeah it’s difficult all right, I’m wrong about something at least once per day
I can’t speak for all of us, but many of us probably did not come to communism as our first ideology once we became more political aware. Some did maybe, but a lot of us were liberals ourselves. We already came to terms with the fact we were lied to and are open to the possibility that we can and will be lied to again.
Personally, I started as full fledged American democrat before I left the country where I moved to socdem. Started reading theory “to be educated even if I don’t agree with it” and…found I agreed with it. A lot.
I have gone through several stages of being lied to and am well aware I am not impervious to it and happy to be corrected when I am wrong.
When you say “both sides” what you mean is “the same con artist wearing a new disguise.”
The “both sides” of capitalist, liberal “democracy” both work on behalf of the rich, not the people. That’s why you’ve felt cheated by both, because both will work against you.
Being aware of your own shortcomings is good though, it’s always important to question whether you have been fooled or not. That’s why us filthy dirty commies practice “self-crit” or “self-criticism” where we examine our ideas and try to challenge them scientifically, similar to peer review. Of course, we could still be wrong, but we can at least manage to be “less wrong” that way.