I think the thing people aren't willing to accept is that society is an oscillator, not a steady-state. Sometimes it gets in a feedback loop and shoots out of control, sometimes it just hums back and forth a bit around a zero-state.

China was never capitalist and will never be capitalist. Russia was never capitalist and will never be capitalist. Europe is capitalist because there's a basic level of self-determinism that's ingrained in the culture - it's more capitalist and less capitalist and there are problems in either extreme but by and large, some form of individual determinism and some form of top-down control are always on the ebb and flow.

There's a really good argument for alternative energy right now from a national security standpoint, I don't care what country you are. You can't have those discussions around a fully free market so the socialists get a leg up. Maybe they'll overreach, maybe they'll never have the chance but I think the pendulum is slowing, if not starting to swing back.

And it got pushed pretty far this time.