I’m sorry to say it, but this is isn’t a bad thing.
Human memory is short, and the human impetus towards political fantasy and tyranny is strong.
We seem to need an on-going, socialist disaster in motion at all times to keep us lucid to the dangers collectivism always poses. Like teachers pointing out the drug-addicted kid in your class who overdosed to keep everyone else way from drugs.
Yes, we do. I had a conversation with a young friend last week who was praising "some of Sanders' ideas", meaning he didn't want to be called on specifics, and I asked him if he was aware of what was happening in Venezuela. He said he wasn't. "Socialism means you'll be lining up for toilet paper" was what I told him, and when he scoffed I pulled up a couple of articles under the search criteria "Venezuela" and "toilet paper". He thought I wasn't speaking literally.
So yeah, we need a living example or nobody will bother to look up the history of socialist government, and unless they've seen it themselves they'll believe the Disney fantasies about the thing. Huey and Maduro and the boys made the 1% pay, all right - pay them, and then they joined them. Life under socialism is life under corruption, and anyone who doesn't believe that need only Google it up.