The one thing I can add to this is how it's very common for people who go deep into one field of study to just be utterly lacking in many others. Political Science is an absolute joke at most schools from what I've seen and experienced. I think a lot people, no matter how smart, book or "street" smart they may be have just been spoon fed the two genders of political ideology so hard they either check out or just pick one and don't really care to question much more beyond that.

I've known quite a few comp-sci people here in the bay area that are some of the dopest comrades, and at the same time, I've known two chemical engineers that are basically centrists (moderate dem.) A latter typically hasn't experienced or had to endure the same struggles or issues more working class folks have delt with so it's very easy for them to both check out of politics and never have a real reason to broaden their scope of ideology or beliefs.

You're completely right about capitalism destroying science though, but a lot of folks have no clue there is even an alternative because all they know about socialism or communism or whatever has been taught from right wing propagandists because that makes up the majority of media in a lot of ways. You almost never see comparisons of America to very rich, great social welfare countries like in parts of Europe. The same people will bitch and moan about hardly being able to ever take off time from work, let alone a week or two at one time, and just feel defeated and not realize it doesn't have to be like this and other parts of the world have figured this out a long time ago. Everyone they know does it so the idea is probably not thought about much about how much they are overworked. In a lot of STEM industries it's mandatory to work insane hours for very long periods of time and forgoing relationships or personal happiness.