Quote Originally Posted by Oliver2 View Post
...why the country needs a good dose of socialism.
I think history has shown that socialism has truly and thoroughly failed.

Eastern Germany was lover developed than Western Germany.
Cuba is still socialist, but many try to get into capitalist USA.
N Vietnam won the war over S Vietnam, but now some of their boys work in Thailand's bars.
N Korea vs S Korea.
Taiwan ROC is higher developed than China PRC.

And other countries in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states are not high in development.