I think we got to that 'place' by the constant collision of the theoretical/academic ideas of the Liberal/left/progressives with common sense. The notion that people will earn income and then be happy to see the bulk of it 'distributed' has arisen before and been thoroughly debunked, the latest example being Venezuela. The neocommunist bromides are still the same-old-same-old ideas that have wrought a history of unmitigated disaster on those who subscribed to them.