I'm gonna go ahead and bet that Lotus is unwilling or unable to answer my question....define socailism. ....and she will make that my fault.
It's my fault because I failed to gain her approval. Because I'm stupid. Or because she has decided i wont listen. Or because she has judged me a 'partisan hack". Or any negative qualities she has ascribed to me because my stances and thoughts do not align with hers.
Either way I have been respectfully asking this question for many years and I have yet to get a coherent answer. It either goes unanswered or the responses are a bunch of personal attacks about how stupid I am or what a terrible human being I am.
Years ago I used to find that really hurtful. I'm a sensitive person in reality and a people pleaser. Not much has been more emotionally traumatic as having friends who are left wing. Because when you deviate or you have a genuine opposition to something they support.....you cannot criticize them without getting verbally abused.
They just dont tolerate any opposition or questions.
It's just meanness. Hatefulness. You either align with them and join their collectivist hive and make sure you never say anything "problematic" so they dont turn......or you are a piece of shit.
Cant even get a definition of socailism out of them. But theyll sit on a high horse and mock people they decide are wrong.....just dont expect them to ever be part of any unifying solutions because these people would just gas everyone who questions or opposes them. And it will be our fault because we somehow missed whatever mass assimilation they all experienced to become part of the hive.
That's why they dont try to persuade. You are either with them or their enemy.