They’ve always been there, only now can they be seen.

One of the good side effects of the internet; the government has a much harder time controlling the narrative. Those socialists have always been there and fighting for higher minimum wage and unions since 1910 or so. Prior to internet, they were simply ignored for the most part. I’m not even a socialist, and would have never known about them if I wasn’t involved in local politics. I do agree with some of their platform, though (pro-union, etc.)

Registered Independents are now the majority of voters for a reason (40%), the majority of voters no longer support the major parties.

Government control of media remains a huge problem… don’t trust any one source, verify everything as much as possible.