From the green movement/recycling, to women's lib, to black lives, to revolutions in the name of 'the people' which always end up the same dumpster fire. This is what it comes to -
burning environmentally correct electric scooters in the street for, uh, peace or something .... muh righteousness. Seattle. https://old.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/iysfpi/a_lime_scooter_gave_up_its_life_to_the_revolution/
How the fuck did this ever happen in my lifetime?
The social upheavals of the 60s happened because of soviet cultural infiltration in the past decades. Every "social movement" was subverted to forward a communist agenda.
The plan continues to be the same:
Incrementally the frog is boiled and one day we wake up in a country that has removed all meaningful limitations on government power. The tools that communists use to take over are the liberal and democratic principles of the US but without the original emphasis on responsibilities, and only allowing those who have skin in the game to access to power.
Which is funny. Because the track record of capitalism and meritocracy in making everything better nad solving quite a few of these exaggerated problems for everyone is quite good. Not without hickups but still.
While all socialism seems to be able to do is bringing everyone but a select few down.
Socialism and government regulation lead to the 'healthcare' cost crisis in America. Then Obama 'solved' the issue by more socialism. I wish it was common knowledge how cheap healthcare would be without government forcing costs and without allowing tax payer research to be monetized by sanctioned corporations.
Hayek said that capitalism solved so many of society's ills that the remaining ones became more intolerable to the masses. That's when socialism swept in, claiming to have solutions.
No, the problem was, it put "intellectuals" out of work.
Normally, those people would have been bookkeepers or government clerks (or court eunuchs). Computers and market economies put those people out of work. Now, they want back in by causing problems with pretty words and then charging you millions for the "solutions."