Blackshirts and reds is an awesome polemic. It’s exciting to read and very engaging. The assassination of Julius Caesar may also be worth suggesting as a starting point for some kinds of people because it is about a time and place far away, and so is less ideologically threatening than the story of the allies subordinating nazis into western anticommunist terrorism.

As others mentioned, you are vastly overestimating the literacy rate of average people. People talk about 95%+ literacy rates in developed countries and this is true in that the majority of people recognize basic words, but this level of emergent or basic literacy is insufficient in the context of political understanding. In most of the west, about 50% of the populace is below level 3 literacy per piaac definitions (see link below).

Comparison of some developed countries WRT literacy levels https://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/adlt-lowlit-aspx/

Definitions of piaac literacy levels (near the bottom, press the plus) - note the details of the definitions, effectively level 4-5 literacy is required for meaningful political understanding, let alone analysis https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp

It should be called golfpercapita

The argument “well what about vegetarians who eat fish?” is so fucking stupid. If you eat fish and call yourself a vegetarian, you’re not a vegetarian, you’re just a coward. Tbf being vegetarian generally makes you a coward anyway but it’s still a stupid argument.

Imagine the “help me my family is dying” budget tweet and unearned wealth for billionaires is in the place of the candles line item

How did they fuck

It’s the bottom from the bottom speak comic.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2394598-pleading-emoji-🥺-bottom-emoji

It might turn out to be if the position has some level of professional responsibility (like doctor, engineer, lawyer, anything with fiduciary duty). Fraud in some careers is more meaningful than in others.

this tweet really says a lot about tom