Which is why if you ask anyone around the age of 20 whether socialism....economic or otherwise...might be a good idea, is because they have the idea that they've NOT lived in socialism and that might be the way out.
There was a recent article that fleshed out the american infrastructure for me perfectly: People my age, and even people younger, going all the way back to the Nixon administration, ahve never seen a form of american government that was truly democratic.
It's been that way for ltierally decades. I come from a Democratic family, but my old man still gets on the soapbox about things like head of the household, two sexes that we can tell....once was laid out on the couch watching voyager.....said Captain Janeway was a B-
Same thing happened with my intro to philosophy professor. you know the drill: plato, socrates, degas, hartman....then he showed an episode of the Simpsons about genetic plant enginneering.
I was taught in one of my earliest poli sci courses that people tend to seek out the most comfortable chair. I was working at a kidngergarten at the time and spent a lot of time sitting criss-cross on the floor. But, on the other hand the same poli sci professor started every class by putting...
"In the original Carmen looks like a man. The original episodes all end the same, the new one has more characters, they all end differently and the art style is better"