With each passing generation of useful idiots socialism needs to be repackaged and marketed as something new and REVOLUTIONARY. Like those sleazy late night infomercials and free lunch seminars pushing the same old get rich quick scams as new ways to achieve instant wealth. Such as buying real estate with no $$$ down. Making a killing in stocks regardless of market conditions. Investing thousands in the latest snake oil while building a downline or some other unworkable pyramid racket. They’ll tell you other systems failed because they were implemented wrong but they have a proven system that works. Those 4 deadly words THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT! And like the hippies before them so many millenials fall for this crap like so many brainwashed little puppies.
When I was young and foolish, I put some graffiti on a University of Wisconsin Student Union toilet stall:
Socialism: The preferred scheme of knowledgeable dictators everywhere!
“THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT!”, they shouted before the revolution. After the revolution the leaders declared them untrustworthy because they had betrayed their county and had them all shot.