Socialism will always look attractive to the young. When you’re struggling to get by and have little, the promise of the government taking from those that do seems like a legal way of “making things fair”. It’s only as they earn more, observe how horribly the government manages things, build some of their own wealth, do they realize “not fair”.
Then the communists go further, all the wealth should be confiscated and distributed to everyone, not realizing that wealth requires constant production which disappears when the reward is removed - resulting only with a common standard of living for all, equal misery.
“Socialism will always look attractive to the young. When you’re struggling to get by and have little, the promise of the government taking from those that do seems like a legal way of “making things fair”. It’s only as they earn more, observe how horribly the government manages things, build some of their own wealth, do they realize “not fair”. “
Or as the old saying goes ,” “If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if not a conservative at 40 you have no brain”