So why does it continue to be tried here in the USA?
It's a huge package that has been being incrementally sold to the American people since at least 1913. The Federal income tax, Federal control of the skools, Social (in)Security, the so-called "minimum wage", etc. Those pushing for Socialism have successfully dumbed down a sufficient percentage of the population that I now think that full blown Socialism could become a reality in the USA within my lifetime. We're already far more socialistic than the founding fathers ever intended and virtually ever social ill that plagues us can be traced back to those previously mentioned events. What has not been told to the masses is Socialism only really benefits those at the very top. About 50% of the US population is now too stupid and or ignorant to realize that, and as such, we are headed at a brick wall at about 120 mph.....and the aftermath will take decades to clean up....