How Does Socialism Survive?

It has failed everywhere it has been tried, and a number of socialist “experiments” still hanging on will soon fail. Socialism failed in the USSR after 75 years of misery for its citizens. It is in its “death throes” in Venezuela right now, with riots to find anything they can use, including toilet paper—of which there isn’t much. They have to use leaves off of trees. In a socialist state that is a little newer, in Cuba, socialism is “winding down” after about the 50 years it took them to deplete what was a busy, prosperous nation’s reserves. Today, the average age of all cars not in the possession of the government is the fifties, held together with chewing gum and duct tape. It will soon fail, along with the other socialist nations. But people are still selling socialism, based on the idea that some can live at the expense of others, and that the government won’t take too much out of the hides of those still working and earning for themselves. There are apparently still enough lazy people out there to make selling socialism profitable—for those selling it, not for the people. But it takes a while for them to notice what they’re losing, so socialism works—for a while, before it collapses and those selling it scamper off to sell it somewhere else, taking their profits with them, leaving misery and death in their wake. I’m seeing socialism rising, even in this country, where the free market was the vehicle for its prosperity, and that makes me glad I won’t be around much longer to have to live under it. (Just common sense)