“The former Soviet Union achieved total equality - meaning that everyone was equally miserable.....”
Socialism cannot exist in America because it runs 180 degrees opposite the founding principals of this country!! These two far left whack jobs can smile and laugh all they want, bottom line is they are a serious threat to your individual prosperity, hard work, personal freedoms and individual rights.
That would be one's first impression.
However the changes over the past 50 years in our constitution, or rather the interpretation of our constitution, nullifies that idea.