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It's because the average USA citizen is economically irrelevant. The money is in the top 10% and the big corpos, especially AI with all the money sloshing around there. The 90% consumer market doesn't matter as much these days.
As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they'll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won't be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they've begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.
Of all the things to pick from socialism, expecting the rich to care should be the last one.