Here is the biggest problem with socialists/marxist; The know their abomination fails the test of human nature and the human condition and that it’s a problem of scale, but they have their scale reversed. The only time socialism has even the remotest chance of succeeding for any significant length of time is down at the familial level. That is where love and kinship make it work.
Socialists on the other hand, particularly elites like Sanders, think that you have to expand it. They think it needs to include everyone, and the scope is never big enough if anyone has an option not to participate.
This however is where socialism fails more and more. No one wants to tow the load for a billion other nameless, faceless freeloaders, which is why you always have to pair up a cult-like selfless brainwashing to a totalitarian prison of social terror, in the end, and it still falls down. Subconsciously they know that people always measure what they give with what they get... some more inequitably than others, but you can never lubricate an economy of any group on the currency of good intentions alone.
For the limousine liberals, it’s not just about the fact that it’s not their own money, it’s the fact that they NEED the right to take everyone’s money just to fool themselves and their mindless followers that it will work.
Venezuela’s rapid descent from prosperity to poverty could happen to America just as quickly. Surrendering liberty for security is irreversible.
Teachable. A frightening prospect.