It puzzles me that people go down this road over and over again despite socialism’s abysmal record. It always fails, and yet human greed and covetousness can’t seem to resist its siren call.
I think that there are a lot of people who don’t really understand or recognise socialism, and don’t really vote based on freedom vs socialism.
While some of the people vote based on ideology, many people vote with what they hope will improve their situation.
When unemployment is high, and people are faced with huge inflation, they blame the party that is in power and vote for the other party. Often the reason for the problem may have happened when that party they blame was not even in power. They also tend to scapegoat all the problems onto the President and his party.
People on public assistance, with no hope or even no desire or intention to improve that, are going to vote most of the time for what they see as their best interest - more public assistance.
While there are exceptions, to these generalities, I do believe these are some of the factors that help socialist programs to survive. It’s insanity of course-to keep doing the same thing or voting for the same thing and expecting better results.
Kind of like someone walking across the street with their eyes closed who wonders why they keep getting hit by cars.