I currently live in a socialist country. The money not stolen from me in the US spends better here. I came here to retire and not pay the exhorbitant fees.
Socialism is a horrible thing. Socialism cannot exist without some form of capitalism and a flourishing black market. Possibly capitalism can’t exist without some aspects of socialism, although that may simply be semantics.
Because of my unique living position, I can watch as the US creeps toward the socialism cliff. You do not recover from the tyranny of socialism.
You can argue all you want about the pros and cons of socialism. The bottom line is it doesn’t work. It has been proven over and over again. Did I mention it doesn’t work.
Where I ive the people are poor but don’t realize it. The elites don’t let them see how they have become elite. Some of te overt fall out from socialism is that education is sub par even by American sub par standards. The populace knows very little.
There is no incentive. No incentive to develop, to make things better or to advance. Mainly because the only advancement is to get in the club of elites.
With no incentive, time and promise have little meaning. Here lies the bedrock of true capitalism.
Capitalism must be moral. It must revolve around a set of rules that honors life. You might be a different religion but your religion must not accept murder (abortion, honor killings, acts of religious violence).
Capitalism works best when there is little government. The moment government exists capitalism disappears. Actually there is an inverse proportion between capitalism and government. The more of one the less of the other.
There exists very few moral people in the US government. But when compared to socialist governments at least the US has a few.