I hope it doesn’t take us that long.
Old School Communism of the type that thrived in Russia, Cuba, China, and other places will not catch on here because the Left in this country lack the one thing that made it successful in other places. That is a sense of patriotism. That’s how earlier Communist appealed to young people because it struck a note with their idealism. Americas leftists, however, hate America and are teaching our children to hate America so, really, their movement has no attraction other than the appeal for free stuff, misplaced compassion, and forced social pressure through the media and schools. Thus, they get voted in through fear and indulgence and once in proceed with their defacto Communist agenda