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"That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects. -- Friedrich August von Hayek

I am friends with an elderly couple from Romania. Although they later escaped to the West, they had seen the advent of communism in Romania and the transformation to a totalitarian form of government. They find what is going on today in America quite familiar and they are worried about it. They have often voiced a sentiment similar to the one of Hayek's that you have quoted above. That is that socialism will not get for idealists what they imagine; instead they will not get equality, they will not get justice, they will not get a life of plenty. What they will get is the loss of freedom and totalitarianism.