If you look at the numbers across the US, the rate of socialism in our generation has skyrocketed, and it's unsurprising. We're a much more educated generation than the world has ever seen, not just on what socialism truly is, albeit that is important in the discussion, but more importantly on the massive failings of capitalism. The education aspect is hardly needed for that considering how absolutely brutalized we've been by it our whole lives, but disillusioned from the US propaganda at least sufficiently enough to give other options a second thought and ask ourselves if they're viable or how to implement them. Strict socialism won't happen, and probably shouldn't, but there's a great flow of ideas and hybridization throughout that will bring about the real change; piecemeal policies that fit into the American system while changing it. The baby boomers can only hold on so long, and everyone under the age of 40 is diametrically opposed to everything they've created.