[PapaBear3625]

The voters are now having a point brought home to them: "Voting for socialism will eventually result in YOUR PERSONAL financial destruction".

It's one thing to vote for socialism when it's just an ideological feel-good thing. It's a whole different story when your own income and assets, and those of your children, are on the line.

[MrB]

This is another version of “make them feel the consequences of their ideology”.