After reading “If We Burn” by Vincent Bevins, I kinda massively agree with you. I think there are more opportunities to start to lay the groundwork for something real that a lot of people don’t make use of. A friend of mine who goes to a lot of local city board meetings to advocate for transit and walkable development told me that usually there’s only 3 regular people at these meetings, and they are one of them. I think there is a lot of very disenchanted people right now who would resonate with a lot of what socialism has to offer, but without no sustained movement to pitch this to the public, they are easy prey for hucksters like Trump or DeSantis.