To hear them talk the radical socialist of the democrat party promise to deliver utopia. But they have always delivered Venezuela. They have also given us Russia Germany and China that took away all the peoples guns and ended up killing nearly 100 million of their people.
Dont listen to their pie in the sky promises.
Like most americans, you sound very confused. Dictatorship and socialism are very different things. Dictatorships employ socialist measures yes, but they are not socialist countries. Example. France is a typical socialist country employing socialist policies, like government homes etc. Venezuela is a dictatorship using badly implemented socialist policies, which failed because...they were badly implemented by clueless people who fail to understand basic economy. Venezuela is not a socialist country because in a socialist country, the government makes sure most people lead decent lives, whereas in Venezuela only a fraction of the population lives decent lives, whereas the majority of people suffer. This is the opposite of socialism- Venezuela is a plain old dictatorship, like N. Korea etc.
The US is a capitalist country, but you also have numerous socialist policies. Example: huge agricultural subsidies, food stamps, public bailouts of private banks etc, free government homes etc. In many ways the US is more socialist than some socialist countries, which is absurd.
Last but not least, americans also confuse "socialism" with "communism". Again, different things. I believe history has made a big mistake by identifying dictatorships like say the USSR as comunism. The USSR was a dictatorship, never a communist country as a communist country is defined in the Communist Manifesto. But dictatorships like the USSR liked to identify themselves as being communist because that was the only way of legitimizing having people like Stalin in charge. Anyway, as a "communist dictatoship", communist countries had no choice but to employ socialist policies, even going to the extreme, like the abolition of private property. This was an excelent cover-up for the process of consolidation of the state and of the dictatorship itself. Stalin was no communist, he was just an average psycho and control freak. As such, the USSR was never ruled by the working class like the communists wanted, there was an elite in charge of the government and the whole state/government was controled by one person, which around ww2 happened to be Stalin. That`s the difference between a dictatorship and communism.
The idea that socialism/communism spreads by taking away people`s guns or by having a socialized healthcare system is laughable. It never happened and never will. If you read any history book, you will see that dictatorships happen in two ways:
a. Your country is invaded by a foreign power, example USSR or Nazi Germany.
b. Your country is taken over from within by a heavily armed minority who wants to install a dictator- example USSR, Nazi Germany, Cuba, Napoleon France etc.
The only way the US will ever become a dictatorship is if and when some gun owners(example NRA members) decide one day to forget about the elections and instal someone(example Trump) as president for life. Which is possible, but unlikely, since the US has a huge army and weapons arsenal. No amount of privately owned guns can prevent the US army from wipping out 8/10 of the US population in 24 hours. If the heads of the army choose sides- say the NRA side, then you have a dictatorship(like Napoleon France). If the army chooses to protect the Constitution, then democracy is saved(East Europe revolutions in 1989).
One more thing: the US healthcare is already a socialised system, just not in the right way. In order to have access to medical services, americans pay insurance. Insurance is nothing more than a pool of money from which private entities draw money to make people healthy. It`s the same process as in a socialist country but unlike a socialist country, in the US the pool of money is managed not by the government, but by private entities. And because of that healthcare in the US is far from being affordable. It only makes sense, if the system is being handled by corporations for a profit and people`s lives depend on healthcare, this only leads to a constant increase of these services. Not because they can`t be cheaper, but because corporations want bigger profits.
