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I've been visibly communist in normal online communities and tried to get liberals to engage with anything non-electoral when they complain about panicking "every four years" but I'm just as isolated from those dweebs as I am from all of you so
Yeah but see, they will write you off the moment they see some words that code as communist. But the folk singer Woodie Guthrie was an open communist, and incepted communist-friendly ideas many Americans still subconsciously hold because he had deliberately crafted and normie-resonant lyrics. I mean, they're still teaching "This Land is Your Land" in kid's classrooms!
That's why something as seemingly trivial as just word choice might determine whether some idea is palatable, and why people pay millions to PR strategists. The getting together and work shopping some talking points that travels is best done by the empire but can at least be done in some small scale and gain virality the left doesn't currently have enough of. The conservatives know that their ideas are not popular and so they fight tooth and nail to soften them while generating reflexive negative feeling toward words associated with the left. But we can thread the needle and grandfather into the public mind leftist ideas that are already popular but saddled with unpopular terms.
They do, but they leave out the verse about how private property is bullshit
Not everywhere, in the children's book my school used they retained that verse and even had complementary illustrations. I am sure some school boards have successfully gotten it removed, but it there are a not insignificant number of schools that keep the verse in.
♪ By the squares of the city
In the shadow of the steeple
By the welfare office
I found my people
As they stood there hungry
I stood there whistling
This land was made for you and me ♪
♪ This land is your land
But it once was my land
Before we sold you
Manhattan Island
You pushed our nations
To the reservations
This land was stole by you from me ♪
There's some really banger stuff in some versions of that song.