I've been listening to podcasts about the Democratic convention and Kamala Harris running for president. Stuff gets left out. Maybe the Squad says some of it. I'm not sure. When it comes to economics.
We all have to live under a system called capitalism. Instead of the Golden Rule, it's "He who has the gold makes the Rules." If we talk about that negatively, then it raises all of these fears. People get scared. They use words like socialism or communism, but mostly the same way they use the N-word or some other racial slur. It's a way to label someone or something as undesirable. I don't think using the word capitalism in a negative sense should be a scare tactic or have the result of scaring anybody. Capitalism is the system that we've lived with for hundreds of years. It obviously isn't perfect. It hasn't gone away. States like China that call themselves Communist follow capitalist principals.
If someone wants to talk about changing the system, modifying it not necessarily eliminating it, that shouldn't be scary. Changing the rule for some minutia in the way that zoning is carried out. Not eliminating zoning. Like trying to reform the police shouldn't be that scary. Sure defunding the police is scary but saying defund the police without giving some other mechanism to keep bad people from doing bad things to you isn't gonna work and we're not gonna vote for it.
Trump basically wants to throw out the system we use to determine the outcome of the election. I don't see why that idea should be accepted anymore then deciding to throw capitalism under the bus. But we shouldn't ignore the fact that capitalism doesn't always work. MAGA thinks capitalism as it used to be, works for them and ignores the idea of making it work for the most people possible.
As for fundamentalist Christians, they just ignore the basic tenants of Christianity. I can't make them learn what they should've learned in Sunday school years ago. They see Christianity as enforcing the Ten Commandments but that is NOT what Jesus said. His gospel of love is just forgotten.