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It is very easy to feel like it's never going to happen.
One of the biggest reasons FDR implemented the New Deal, was because there were groups advocating for communism and socialism in the US and it was not a far fetched prospect.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-communist-party-in-the-30s-the-depression-and-the-great-upsurge/
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/highlander-folk-school-socialist-party-new-deal
The more we organize and unionize, the more it's possible!