i was discussing politics stuff with some coworkers relating to unions and how health insurance companies should be removed and replaced with a socialized system. this one coworker in her early thirties who’s a liberal had asked me what my political belief is and i told her i’m a socialist (even tho i’m more so a syndicalist but literally every time i’ve told someone that they have literally no clue what it means). she’d asked what i thought of the current government which is already pretty socialist to which i just went “do you know what socialism is?”
apparently she thought socialism is authoritarianism and i had to explain no that’s not the case and that the american government has been like the main enemy of socialism since literally the inception of the ideology