Indeed, so. It will take a major collapse of one or more elements of the welfare state to change that, I suspect.
(BTW...thanks SOOO much for your help to overcome the effect of Hive account@bloom's downvotes... I have my own personal downvoter, assigned, apparently, to repeatedly downvote EVERYTHING I post But your vote easily outweighs his...ha! ha!)
RE: Socialists (& other assorted libbies) ARE NOT ELIGBLE FOR OFFICE, because they can't take the oath and mean it.