I hate the thought of the weak minded sheeple in America that are being hypnotized by the promises of socialism.
The left has been using “moral” and “moral imperative” a lot lately.
I think it’s a moral imperative to point out how destructive socialism is to a country and its people.
Socialism leads to inflation and bureaucracy, which leads to scarcity of goods, which increases inflation even more, ultimately ending in poverty. Venezuela is the perfect textbook example and the story isn’t over yet.
These kids today didn’t live through the Reagan era (or before). They didn’t see the millions of people clamoring for freedom from Socialism. They are not taught about the Khmer Rouge and the millions that Pol Pot killed. They don’t know about the Gulags in Siberia (or even the camps that exist today in China). What a great moment when the Berlin wall came down. They don’t know that feeling. But there is a reason not even Russia could keep Socialist policies. It’s been tried, and it’s been destructive to all who tried it.
They really can’t even point to the Swedes or Danish etc anymore - all of them have pretty much marginalized their Socialist parties.
And even here in the USA, the Socialists can’t even get it right. They talked about universal healthcare but what did they give us? Mandatory health insurance with no guarantee of actual care! Ridiculous! And predictably what happened...? Insurance prices skyrocketed, the economy slowed to a crawl, and bureaucracies bloated even more. It’s so damn obvious but it needs to be explained to them like schoolchildren.