I think theres enough curious minds out there, coupled with free access to information ( I can read all these amazing thinkers like Ayn Rand and Mises and Rothbard and Hazlitt and Sowell etc etc because it's on the internet, for free ), that there is substantial and significantly intelligent pushback .
Problem is, in both facism and communism, they always go after the intellectuals don't they?
Proof that facism and communism can't fight fairly in the arena of ideas. It's like that last scene in Gladiator, where the emperor shivs Maximus before the fight because it's the only way he can win.
All the censorship industrial complex stuff that is emerging now, it just goes to proove, the predominant institutions of today cannot allow the individual to reach their own conclusions, because invariably, I think it is the natural state of man to grow towards truth, the way a plant grows towards light, however slowly he does it, and the truth would mean a rejection on the power structure of today, if only for the absolute violence it imposes on the individual.
getting keyed in to truth is a big one.
how many of the worlds problems would immediately evaporate, if everyone held truth as their highest value, in all things?
100%, re the availability / access to information. that's a potential game changer in and of itself.
as far as the broader problem is concerned, I've come to the understanding that when people are in a certain condition, ie traumatised, nutritionally depleted, etc, they end up favouring these sorts of left wing ideas. the reason being that they lack the brain power to actually think deeply about concepts like sovereignty, personal responsibility, etc.
(I don't say this as a joke. It's a large part of the reason so many people flatly refused to look at literature that made it quite clear there would be problems, re recent medical interventions, for example).
weak people are generally afraid, and less able to take care of themselves, so they tend to favour a nanny state, who portray themselves as the caregiver. ready to bail you out, should anything go wrong...
when people get start healing, and getting stronger, eventually they regain a natural impulse to want to take care of themselves...
(This is where Ayn Rand comes in).
in my view, the bad ideas will always exist. like a world teaming with infectious bacteria...
the best thing we can do is to help people heal, become strong, and develop an immune system that simply takes no notice....
