To the youth who know no better, "equalize things and make things moar fairer" sounds better than hardly being able to afford to pay bills or being able to build wealth.

I have lots of sympathy for the under 35 crowd. Housing is impossible now, cars are unaffordable and overengineered pieces of techie shit, food is through the roof. They don't know anything about the history of communism, esp in the USSR and in China and North Korea, therefore they are easy pickins'.

Mamdami looks nothing like 20th century despots so if you make the comparison they will LOL.

Conservatives that believe completely in trickle-down as an answer to economic hardship have been fooling themselves and us for decades. But their preferred system has better results for most people than socialism. But, there is no practical way to prove that position.

Someone who has no path to a reasonably comfortable existence will be receptive to a message like "burn the entire motherfucker to the ground." I would probably think likewise.

I think capitalism seriously needs tweaks to avoid the problem of gross inequality building as everything in society gets financialized. But I have no idea what that would be. Pure capitalism does seem to have an end game of wiping out the middle class. Since if you can't expand the base of consumers, you are left to squeeze the ones you have until they are skeletons.