[who_would_fardels_bear]

Socialism of a type worked for a while in Scandinavia partly because there was a good amount of capitalism mixed in, and because the populations are so homogeneous.

Socialism fails in countries where the population is diverse (like those in Latin America) where it quickly degenerates into a zero sum battle for government stolen goodies.

If full-throated socialism ever came to the US it would be more like Venezuela than Norway or Sweden.

[elcid1970]

The homogeneous Scandahoovian social democracies are growing more diverse by the minute, if you get my drift.