Reply #7: Finally! Somebody who's saying the same thing I've

[Solomon]

always thought. "Socialism works from the bottom up". I've always thought that socialism was a natural human evolutionary progression and that it would evolve naturally one day. The problem is it can't be enforced from the top down. That's why I don't listen to people who try and use other countries as examples that it fails. Especially Cuba. That one roils me to no end because we spent so much effort causing them to fail, embargoes and what not, and then we point a finger at them and say, "see, socialism is a failure."

To be sure, a necessary part is an improvement in consciousness. A lot of people have already been there for a while. But most Americans are dragging because they have the illusion that they may be rich one day so they don't want to do anything that hurts the rich. They think that under socialism, there won't be any more rich and everyone will be the same, but that's simply not true.