Enough Venezuelans believed in a unicorn infested utopia to vote for this. Not just once, but they reelected the guy responsible.
We still have to wait and see how many Americans believe in unicorns. Hopefully there are not enough to produce a socialist “utopia.”
Socialism is imposed by votes.
Communism is imposed by force.
Both have the same result.
The following quote is attributed to Scottish professor Alexander Tyler. Some historians doubt if he really did say it, but anyway it makes sense, and predicts that eventually most Americans WILL come to believe in unicorns.
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."