Anyone have experience with "community gardens"? Our town did it here, donating a small piece of land, the idea being some folks didn't have the space or skills to garden on their own, so the experienced folks would teach them how and everyone would work together and split the work, expenses and harvest. Socialist utopia! Maybe Joe didn't have money for seed but he could show up on a hoeing day. 5 people did the majority of the work, all the time thinking that they were doing good for the community. Some of the older generation really bought into the idea that they were going to get a lot of help later in the season. Same 5 kept the thing going all summer, until harvest when >25 showed up with their baskets to harvest away. Of course the 5 were stunned by the freeloaders harvesting everything at every opportunity. A couple of the workers didn't get as much as 1 meal of green beans, such was the intensity of freeloader harvest. The last straw was some of the commie freeloaders absconded with the last few tomatoes and pumpkins to experiment with capitalism by selling them at the farmers market for some quick dispensary cash. Year two, none of the 5 workers showed up, the freeloaders then begged the city for money to buy the seeds. The city summarily dismissed that request and added that the users would have to pay a bit of the water bill this year. Died a quick death. Several of the freeloaders could be seen around town lamenting how great having all those veggies were (they really had a bountiful harvest that first year) but not a single one of them would do the work to grow another harvest. The take home message is that even on what seems like a small manageable scale, socialism or communism doesn't work.

Is it considered a political thread when the subject is so far from reality that it becomes a punchline? Really, I cannot believe that socialism is even being considered. Have people lost their minds? We have been fighting it and forms of it for the last 100 years and all of a sudden people believe it's a good idea? Examples are everywhere, including modern day examples of it happening right this very minute of the failure and suffering that it causes and through all of this, not one example of it succeeding..... EVER! I know for most of us on here I am preaching to the choir but I can't wrap my head around the mental numbness it must take to buy into this farce. It must be a mental disorder?

The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming, and they came! Now I think they have put smallpox in our blankets, lol !

The really weird thing is that, while protesting, they often scream "freedom"??????? Good grief, What they are fighting for is about the furthest thing away from freedom you could ask for. These idiots do not understand that they will be squashed like a bug under socialism. They will be lucky not to starve to death, yet they are begging for it! How can people be so stupid?

Socialism denies human nature. In that if one doesn't get any reward for his work at best he goes thru the motions and does the minimum to get by or if one wants to he can survive by not working.
While capitalism embraces human nature and rewards the thinkers and doers. If you don't work you starve.
One motivates the other doesn't.

I worked at a Tool Shop back in the late '70's. We had 2 Machine repair guys that we'd hire on and off for fixing machines when needed.
They came from Czechoslovakia when it was under Communist rule. They actually built an airplane in their garage and flew it over the boarder to escape.

One of the guys told me a line about Communism that I'll never forget. He said that it summed up Communism.

"In Communism what's yours is mine and whats mine is none of your business"
Remember that Socialism is the first step to Communism.

Yup, that sounds bad. Luckily there isn't a chance that would ever happen here. Way too much money being made with the current system. Those with the money and power are not going to change a system that provides the money and power. That's human nature.

No truly socialist system could come up with the brilliance of Ikea, a place that somehow has built a business model selling both furniture and Swedish meatballs. However, the incomprehensible directions they utilize to “help” you put the furniture together absolutely had to be the handywork of a completely incompetent and borderline masochistic socialist bureaucrat.

Problem is they don't teach history in school any more.

Yup, that sounds bad. Luckily there isn't a chance that would ever happen here. Way too much money being made with the current system. Those with the money and power are not going to change a system that provides the money and power. That's human nature.