They start waving flags around, voting for someone who will promise to "make things great again" all the while languishing in poverty and dying of fentanyl overdoses
The majority of anti-tech sentiment in America has been coming out of left-leaning circles for the last five years. Go look at a video of the people protesting data centers in your nearest metropole; I guarantee you they look nothing like the caricature you have in your head.
The people who vote for the great "Make X Great Again" candidates don't protest.
You mean antifa?
The left tea party and left version of Trump hasn't arrived yet, but it's coming.
The "Tea Party" was an astroturf operation organized by GOP operatives and funded by the Koch brothers and some other billionaire donors. Its appearance of popular support was substantially artificial and heavily amplified by supportive GOP-aligned media.
What kind of "left" version are you imagining?
> What kind of "left" version are you imagining?
The Open Society Foundation.
Overcoming the "Oh, ICK!" factor when discussing socialism ?