Socialism-Liberalism is an equal opportunity destroyer and no country ever regulated, spent and taxed itself in to prosperity and these people who run the show are too ignorant and dumb to see it. With some exception, most of them just care for their own well being.
The people who run the show are not necessarily ignorant. They are consumed by an ideology, just like someone in a cultic religion.
This is what they want to happen. They think it is desirable until it impacts them the same way it impacts us.
Wealth and elitism so far have insulated the rulers from the effects of their mandates. It will eventually hit their children and their families, but it will take too long for them to understand the relationship.
Ask any prog. The reason for all the misery is that the GOP has thwarted Dear Leader and his cadre. DL and Co. only want good things for everyone and we would have them if the GOP and conservatives would stop obstructing./s
At some point, there will be no conservatives in power and only token Republicans. That is when the progs will begin to fight among themselves, purging those who are not sufficiently inculcated. That is the point where there will also be no more wealth left to tax and confiscate, no more businesses to regulate and the Perfect Communitarian State will collapse.
The prog leaders will quickly appropriate every bit of State
property that they can in order to emerge from the rubble with assets. Some capitalism will then emerge and the show trials of the oligarchs will begin.
Rinse and repeat.