The people of Nicaragua and Venezuela actually VOTED for socialism. Now they are getting it, good and hard.
And of course, now that they got their utopian socialism, those same people are flocking to the USA to escape what they created. Soon to vote the same way here.
I explained socialism to a middle school child this way. …. To make everyone have the same, you would give some of the points that earned you an A to someone who did no work and failed the class. That way you could both have a C. She did not like that idea at all.