Socialism begins with the simple idea that you can take money from the people who earn it and use it to buy votes. Eg, student loan forgiveness.

Now, of course, this inevitably leads to government interference like subsidies for green energy. They’re just buying votes from those concerned about the environment — a concern that they intentionally amplify in order to create that cohort of voters to buy votes from.

But you can never buy enough votes. So then you get really serious and offer free money, like 25K to first time home buyers, or 6K for having a kid, or the utterly absurd notion of UBI.

In the end, after exploring every possible avenue for buying votes, the government finds itself in control of all means of production and distribution. With economic collapse threatening, and poverty, hunger, and crime on the rise, they desperately need to find another way to buy votes. So they create enemies to blame for the disaster they have created. This allows them to buy votes by peddling hate. And, of course, this leads to war and genocide.

And then the system completely collapses in civil war, famine, disease, and death.

As history has repeatedly shown.

And as we know, those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.

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