Look at Venezuela Socialism is not tenable - a lesson progressives need to learn
Well, they're not going to learn from that - because Venezuela is not typical. It's a very extreme example of a dismal cluster#### exacerbated by the existence of a sweaty pulsating ballsack of a dictator, who - after he dropped dead way later than he should have - is succeeded by another
pendejo retrasado.
You point to Venezuela as your example of socialism, they'll point to some Scandawegian country that appears to have its trains running on time, meatballs in every pot, new Volvos in every driveway, and most of its citizens having good teeth, slim waists, and blonde eyelashes, as proof-positive that Socialism works just fine.
And it does.
In small, homogenous societies where everyone's on board.
The United States is not small.
It's not homogenous.
And everyone is most certainly not on board.
There is way too much self-indulgence, and ravenous greed in the population - and even more in the government - for large scale socialism to do anything but shatter this country, which is already a shell of its former self, into little bitty pieces. It's simply not in our American individualist mindset to economically cooperate on that level. It never has been, and it never will. Even if 1/2 of us are on board, 1/2 is not - and it takes way fewer than half to make socialism a pointless exercise in futility.
Wouldn't it be nice if we all would cooperate though?
Wouldn't it be nice if we all had ponies, crapped chocolate fairy-dust and healthy non-rejectable vital organs grew on trees?