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In the end, all of it, socialism, communism, Marxism, is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable.

It is all the ideological equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.

It all starts off at a given level, and as soon as the socialist gears are engaged, the downward descent begins.

Over time, the existing wealth consumed by socialism is never replaced, in the same way a healthy human body is inexorably consumed by a wasting disease over time.

And eventually both the human body and a wealthy society waste away as they are consumed and die in exactly the same fashion. Venezuela was an object lesson in real time, in our lives, exactly how that works.

The only reason Socialism “works” is that wealth has to exist for it as a host to consume, and there has to be a fresh supply of “Useful Idiots” and “Marks” who will lend support to socialist endeavors.

And there are never shortages of “Useful Idiots” and “Marks” who are willing to go all in on the socialist agenda...because they all think they will be the ones to benefit in some way.

They don’t understand that they too will be victimized in the same way the owners of wealth will be.

> there has to be a fresh supply of “Useful Idiots” and “Marks” who will lend support to socialist endeavors <

Yep. And a fundamental tenet of socialism is “This time it will be different.”

But of course it never is.