Exactly. Socialist policies saved the US and unfettered capitalism from the Great Depression and the pandemic. We had a more balanced socialist-capitalist economy, but we've now created the Golder Gilded Age.

Our government annihilated workers' movements to combat economic systems that would fail independently, yet they had to be contained because they threatened the world. It takes a few minutes or less to think about these things, but why bother to use our brains?

The fear was communism and socialism would function and Americans would demand them. Maybe that's why our government still isolates and sanctions Cuba - we can't have a flourishing alternative model that is too close to home.

Sadly, we've never seen an equitable economic system because the US/West intervened in every attempt. Yet, we think capitalism is the greatest, but it's the only system supported, and capitalists invest in our uneducatedness to maintain it.

When we understand that our democracy permits electing politicians, not policies, we might figure out that a fresh face implementing the same fundamental agenda is tyranny.

We deem Xi, who responded to the people's poverty reduction demands, authoritarian, and it's ironic.