[Alan]

You should. Just a year or two ago the media were all talking about how since the crisis Amazon's sells of Atlas Shrugged have tripled over.
That's a sad fact, but what they failed to mention is that the sells of the communist manifesto increased over 600%

Don't forget that the Tea Party movement is not even talked about anymore and the Republican Party keeps changing candidates more than a teenager changes fashion styles.
Don't forget that the OWS movement has at least 15 people backing them up per individual who is actually at any of the protests in any city.
Four years ago we were all talking about how with the candidacy of Obama, there hadn't been more youth involvement in politics since the anti-war protests in the 60's. The youngest of us are now 22 and most of us remained politicized even if we're not active, and we have opened our ears to the leftist alternatives to the clusterfuck that is American politics.
Imagine if four years ago we had said that we shouldn't manifest on the streets in protest to the banks that caused the recession that was barely beginning back then, because they would call us socialists. But here we are, four years after the crisis, more politicized than back then.
So long as we don't shy away from words like 'socialism' and 'radical' imagine where we'll be in four years, when the kids who got politicized in 2008 are beginning to enter their 30's.