Just having a ‘discussion’ with an old friend and Sanders supporter - you see when you point out that something is socialist they cannot see it that way. I can’t get more out of the friend yet so I don’t know what the actually see when they start talking about white guilt, how white people murdered everyone everywhere, and all that stuff.
So BS cannot see he has been hoisted with his own philosophy, it has to be something else.
Typically socialists blame their failures on one or a combination of things:
1) That failure was not failure. It is a huge success that its detractors are blind to.
2) That it was underfunded. Socialist programs are notoriously greedy for ever increasing resources. And when they cannot get ever more resources, they cut back on performance “to save money”, so theoretically eventually they would get ALL the resources and do nothing in return.
3) It has been sabotaged from within by those opposed to it. The Russians were big believers in shooting people they suspected of sabotage of things far beyond their control, like the weather.
4) Socialist systems cannot work in competition with any other system. It must be universal to work. And if it is universal, and is still a total failure, use the other excuses.
Socialism like conservatism means what ever we want it to mean. That is the problem.
Words do not have meanings for people anymore.
I would encourage us to be like Columbo, keep asking dumb questions until the words get defined.