Surely it had nothing to do with years and years and neoliberalism you’re so keen on doubling down on.
Very, very weird to see. Is public opinion actually shifting significantly? Usually these comment sections are filled with red-scared libs and chuds.
Never mistake online for real life.
Online you will find over-representations of every single group with a strong opinion. It’s just the nature of things.
With a mere 200 dedicated and terminally online socialists you could easily shift the mood in many online comment sections for smaller articles.
And who would be most likely to reply to an article like this or read it in the first place? Probably not those who agree with it, they just nod at it and move on with their day. And socialists are more likely to anger click on it and then respond.
Go to a large default subreddit on reddit for a slightly more accurate representation. See how well selling actual socialism (not Bernie Sanders socialism, not what all these liberals think is socialism) to them in the comments goes. You’ll get downvoted massively.
Sentiments against capitalism are growing make no mistake. But the actual movement for socialism is being actively subverted and co-opted by liberal opportunists (Warren, Bernie) as well as the new cold war against China and the platoon of left anti-communists who inveigh against “authoritarian” socialism in places like the former USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia. Everywhere it is actually tried it is castigated as a violent and oppressive system and liberals who like to call themselves socialists are quick to denounce that and state that “real socialism” isn’t “authoritarian” as the US state dept says and that “real socialism” is stuff like Norway. Thus muddying the waters and offering a false path of compromise and failure which delights porky and the CIA.
