Ruth Webb used to supplement her grocery shopping with a monthly trip to a local food pantry, where she would get fresh produce like potatoes, onions and carrots.
these months would have happened anyway and are/would be more of a radicalization deal for way more people than your socdem bernie voters
Deteriorating material conditions aren't enough to push people left -- they'll get radicalized, alright, but not necessarily in the right direction.
To radicalize people to the left you also need (1) a critique of capitalism and (2) a vision for how leftist policies could do better. That's why Medicare for All was such a great rallying cry for Bernie; it did both for a huge problem that everyone has at least some interaction with. If you get people moving in that direction then what radicalizes them is all the Bernie-adjacent people who are farther, more formally left, not someone on Fox News screaming that immigrants are the problem.
Deteriorating material conditions aren't enough to push people left -- they'll get radicalized, alright, but not necessarily in the right direction.
To radicalize people to the left you also need (1) a critique of capitalism and (2) a vision for how leftist policies could do better. That's why Medicare for All was such a great rallying cry for Bernie; it did both for a huge problem that everyone has at least some interaction with. If you get people moving in that direction then what radicalizes them is all the Bernie-adjacent people who are farther, more formally left, not someone on Fox News screaming that immigrants are the problem.