Exactly! And we have more bat-shit crazy socialism/marxism/communism than we did when your parents were growing up.
Um, guy, my parents grew up during the Great Depression and World War II. We had a lot more Marxism back then before McCarthy got us all seeing commies under the bed.
The reason why Marxism/Socialism is so popular with young people is they see what a shit sandwich capitalism has been for most of their parents, and they look out past college of a lifetime of slaving away for a big corporation to pay off their student debt, and they say **** that, "Bernie 2020".
Here's the thing, if Bernie had been the nominee in 2016, he'd have easily beat Trump.
There was no Obamacare back then, genius. There were no "environmental regulations" back then, genius. We didn't have the highest corporate tax rate in the world back then, genius.
Um, actually, back in the day, pre-Ronnie Ray-Gun (which is when I grew up) the rich paid their fair share. We had awesome infrastructure, full employment and a vibrant middle class. It still kind of sucked to not be white, and you had to put up with an occasional job program dressed up as a war. But certainly better than what we have now with regularly scheduled recessions to keep the working class in it's place.
Only Joey could point to a prosperous time when there was exponentially less government and exponentially less progressivism as "proof" of how bad conservative policy is. Freaking hilarious.
Except there wasn't. America's TRUE GOLDEN AGE was from 1945 to about 1972, where Republicans and Democrats agreed that we needed a strong government role, strong poverty alleviation programs, strong infrastructure and the ******* rich assholes paying their fair share.