The fall of Rome was caused by socialism.
And danged if this bridge isn’t being neglected for exactly the same reason.
Something to keep in mind was there wasn’t a headline one day saying something like ‘Rome falls’. Roads progressively got worse, cities became progressively overcrowded as more and more people were progressively added to the grain rolls, their version of welfare payments. That’s progressivism; that’s socialism. Insanity has been defined as doing the same things and expecting different results.