READ HERE: Socialists always rise to power in the midst of failed liberal leadership.  The assumption being that liberal policies accomplish nothing because they “don’t go far enough” to push the collectivist values of wealth redistribution and equity-based cultural engineering.  If only the political left asserted more control over people’s lives and property, all the ailments of American society would magically disappear.

In most cases socialism also fails to make people’s lives better.  Though one could argue that it does eventually achieve its goals of equal wealth – Socialism makes everyone equally poor.  In countries where socialism actually finds “success” a couple of factors are always present:  A small population that avoids multiculturalism and mixed demographics, and access to abundant natural resources.

Wherever socialism in introduced into an otherwise prosperous economy, the standard of living automatically degrades.  When socialism is used as a bandage to stop the financial bleeding of a depressed market wounded by liberal management, it always makes things far worse.