The excerpt makes some good points (I'm getting a cloudflare error when I click through to the article itself), but I think there's often a simpler explanation: Gen Z is old enough to understand that the government isn't working, but young enough to believe that a government could work. So seeing one that professes to be capitalist failing, they support the opposite (which in turn is where ignorance of socialism kicks in).
The excerpt makes some good points (I'm getting a cloudflare error when I click through to the article itself), but I think there's often a simpler explanation: Gen Z is old enough to understand that the government isn't working, but young enough to believe that a government could work. So seeing one that professes to be capitalist failing, they support the opposite (which in turn is where ignorance of socialism kicks in).