[El Cid]

As the United States has been rushing off to adopt the European Model for the past 20 years (and some of our Supremes defer to European Court rulings).
Sure, follow a doomed model and end up just like them. The only ones who 'win' are the ruling class - the rest of the people become serfs to feed their betters.

Imposed socialism doesn't work - it never has, and never will.

The only 'Socialism' that worked for a short while was when the early Christians in Acts voluntarily pooled their goods together (Acts 2:44-45 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.). Of course their 'government' was led by Christ and the Holy Spirit... We and Europe, on the other hand, are led by followers of Satan.

[1010RD]

Voluntary is the key word. Our lefties want us to be more like Europe and whenever some country there fails it’s something other than the welfare state. They use some cherry picked examples to prove the success of socialism, but the cause is always something other than socialism.

[Cronos]

The WESTERN European model worked when the US was protecting France etc. from the Soviets and the French opted out of NATO -- to spend that money saved on freebies for the population

Just as the US over the past 20 years has taken a turn left, former left countries like China, India etc. are turning right....

[Myrddin]

It grates on my nerves to see socialism espoused in the scripture you cited. The LDS church also has a concept of the "united order" that feeds on the same socialist concepts. Socialism always fails when it runs out of resources to steal from those who work vs those who consume. Is "heaven" a place of inexhaustible resources that requires no work? If so, it might work.