I think a lot of people don’t understand just how angry the younger people are with how the system is “working” today. It’s almost hilarious to me how conservatives scream angrily about how “young people are communists and hate capitalism” without trying to understand why. When a person’s prospects of outearning their parents (or hell, earning as much as them) are lowering every year, is it any surprise people are fed up with being exploited?

Interestingly, I suspect that we are seeing an uptick in tankie-like behavior because of that anger being directed at a single entity: the United States. It’s a lack of understanding nuance paired with anger that is driving the sort of “anyone against America is good because America bad.”

(To be clear, the US has and continues to do fucked up shit, but it has also done positive things as well, which is why nuance is important here)