Why are so many seduced by the siren song of Socialism

The future of the Democrat Party. “ We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand Excerpt from; Why People Keep Falling for Socialism, Despite the Evidence Written by Walter E. Williams for Illinois Family Action Socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign garnered considerable appeal from millennials. These young people see socialism as superior to free-market capitalism. Capitalism doesn’t do well in popularity polls, despite the fact that it has eliminated many of mankind’s worst problems, such as pestilence and gross hunger and poverty. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the nonexistent, nonrealizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared with a utopia, will not fare well. Indeed, socialism sounds good but, when practiced, leads to disaster. Those disasters have been experienced in countries such as the USSR, China, most African nations, and, most rec...