And then China rapidly developed to be the world's leader. Meanwhile the USA continues to burn and Western-democracies crumble, espousing there's no money for any public-programs. Quality of life degrades materially and education degrades. All whilst the media's mouthpieces say socialism does not work, whilst the system of communist thought took two countries, in a hostile environment, from backwaters to parity of the world's capitalist hedgemon.

I unfortunately think it's true that the majority of a citizenry do not understand the social order/the economy that they live in, nor do they have an interest in it.