How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key

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13. Even if they can't define it or confuse it with fascism, they know they don't like it.

And we can't change that so if we're smart, we stay away from it. I've posted the following here before but at times it seems it's like braying into the wind.

Three generations of voters, millions of voters, the greatest generation, Boomers and GenXers were schooled in their formative years that socialism, failed communist collectives, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, the iron curtain, the Cuban missile crisis, fall out shelters...are all toxic and to be shunned.

Many voters learned nuance with critical thinking and matured out of that knee-jerk, negative reaction to socialism as there are aspects of it in our system (mostly us Dems) but millions haven't and never will and will vote against anything associated with socialism, democratic socialism, communism, whatever.

Anybody who doesn't get that has a depth of knowledge of their own country as that of a sidewalk puddle. We'll keep losing elections we don't have to until we figure out how to distance ourselves from that label. Maybe combat it by labeling repugs fascist, as they are, but the deplorables don't know the difference, as you said.