Socialism may win, but ordinary people then lose.
Most places with leftist government don’t have enough ordinary people in them anymore.
When the elites put the American Dream out of reach for so many young Americans (and increasingly, middle-aged ones), it was inevitable that they’d seek some other means to attain some semblance of the standard of living enjoyed by older Americans; warnings that it doesn’t work fall on deaf ears when these people already know what certainly doesn’t work.
American taxpayers are finding themselves providing a standard of living for their idle underclass that is the envy of unemployed people around the globe, while simultaneously providing the same for anyone who can enter the country (legally or otherwise) from abroad; we are providing every creature comfort, along with food, housing, public education, and emergency services for the new generation (comprised mainly of foreigners) who have been trafficked here to replace ageing, childless Americans.
The left is watching ageing American DINKs (dual income, no kids) leave their accumulated wealth to animal shelters as they die, and are determined to get their piece before that happens.