Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”
Socialists are insane. In fact, as things come apart, as entire systems fail (Social Security, Medicare, VA etc.), or even nations go under (DDR, Soviet Union, etc), all they do is scream louder that if we just increase the scale, if we just turn up the degree one notch higher with this idea, maybe then it will work.
The underlying problem with socialism is that the basic market forces and human nature are omnipresent, but they choose to ignore them. They are so engrossed in a theory, in an idealistic world of rainbows and cotton candy where all get along in a workers paradise that they over look all the flaws from an economic, constitutional, human behavioral standpoint. Socialism is the consequence of having ideology and feelings triumph over reason and truthful decision making.
I’ll take a little liberty with Shakespeare and say that once we win this Second American Revolution, “the first thing we do is to kill all the socialists”... by making them get real jobs. :-)