About a third of Americans today believe socialism is a form of “social kindness” by the government. But true socialism isn’t the social safety net, but rather when the government controls most prices, businesses, property, and other aspects of economic life.
As this video by PolicyEd explains, the historical record of socialism has been a wreckage of stagnating economies and human rights violations. The truth of a hundred years of hard experience is that people do not prosper in socialist countries.
