Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid

Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid - Eagle Rising:
"It’s easy to believe in socialism in modern America.
It’s easy to hear about everyone working together for the common good, the government making sure everyone plays nice, and free and affordable everything for everyone and think, “Well that sounds like a great idea.”
But the only reason it is so easy to believe is because we have never lived in a fully socialist country. We don’t know what socialism actually costs.
Or what it actually looks like.
There’s an interesting story about Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Soviet Union, coming for a visit to America in 1989.
He visited Johnson Space Center, but that nexus of technological wizardry didn’t turn his head.
What did turn his head was an informal visit to a local Randall’s grocery store:
About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent.
He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.
In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits.
Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia. . . .
...The tragedy of socialism is that it destroys all the wealth in a country in an attempt to create equality. 
It happened in the Soviet Union.
And in China. North Korea. Vietnam.
It’s not as if we don’t have plenty of case studies of the failures of socialism and communism.
They litter the road of history like discarded bags of half-eaten takeout..."