Democratic socialism is gaining favorability in the U.S., with 62% of Americans aged 18–29 now holding a favorable view of socialism. Conservatives find it hard to understand why anyone would vote for a system that has a consistent record of making everyone poor. Candidates and politicians from Zohran Mamdani to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Chris Rabb, Aber Kawas, Jonathan Larkin, and Omar Fateh all run on a platform of free stuff for everybody without ever explaining where the money will come from.
Despite socialism and communism promising to make everyone equal, history demonstrates that they make everyone equally poor, a lot of people die, and everyone loses their basic freedoms. Political scientist R.J. Rummel calculated that the Soviet regime killed nearly 61 million of its own people between 1917 and 1987. In China, historian Frank Dikötter’s archival research puts the Great Leap Forward famine death toll at at least 45 million, after the state seized control of grain production and falsified harvest reports. Vietnam and Laos sent countless citizens to reeducation camps for the crime of having previously been a landlord or a professor, and in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge killed everyone who knew how to read.
Liberals defend the system and live in denial, saying that any reports we have about North Korean work camps or widespread surveillance, torture, imprisonment, and starvation are just Western propaganda. But they never stop to ask why North Korea doesn’t allow anyone into the country to prove how well everyone is living.
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