Some things sell themselves.

Chevy sold 33,330 Corvettes in 2024.

I've never seen them advertised and they are expensive as hell. I can't afford one. Still, they sell them without a whole lot of advertising. People that buy them cheerfully pay through the nose for them because  they're good automobiles or they would have to advertise.

Corvettes don't need to be sold. They sell themselves.

There are also any numbers of good products out there that sell themselves. I met a salesman once that was selling some kind of plumbing fixtures. He laughed and said he was doing rather well. He admitted that he wasn't a salesman, He was an order taker. "The plumbers love what I sell. All I have to do is take orders because it sells itself.

 I had a relative that sold used cars and he said it was dog eat dog. He pulled the ejection ring on that gig because he said he despised lying to people to get them to buy a car from him. He also felt guilty over selling people junk in disguise.

He got out of used sales and went to work for Toyota Motors and was happy as a clam. He once said to me, Toyotas, especially Tacomas, sell themselves. I believe he's right. When I needed a new pickup back in 2009 I went straight to the Toyota dealers and bought one. I still have it as my daily driver. It became the third Tacoma I have ever owned.

(The best selling pickup is actually the Ford F series. Toyotas hold their value better, however. They also tend to last longer.)

Of course when one is trying to sell something that doesn't have the qualities necessary to be a self seller then the salesman steps in. The salesman has various ways of convincing people into buying what he is selling, some honest, some patently dishonest. Eventually it degenerates down to smearing the competition, lies, and the usual lowlife bull$hit.

What I would like to know is that if socialism is so great then why hasn't it managed to sell itself? Why are socialists feeling the need to use tactics straight out of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals?

Why are they destroying things? Why are they reverting to lies, disinformation and violence? 

If socialism is so great then why doesn't it simply sell itself to the American public? 

 

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