I’ve thought for years and years that all of western civilization is moving towards socialism whether you like it or not. I’ve never liked it, but there’s little you can do. Politicians like Reagan slow down the drift toward socialism, but it’s headed to the left anyway — sometimes more rapidly, sometimes more slowly. This has been true since at least the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Maybe it’s what gives Germany influence even now because they invented both socialism and communism. It’s not an English speaking world thing. P.S. For example, Hitler and his politics were supposed to be on the right. Yet because he was a German politician he believed in socialism. Socialism isn’t something from the right, but in Germany it’s all over the place.