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It seems that socialism is like an infectious disease that everyone has to get ill of to develop immunity. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn pointed out, “For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.” ... the rest is a good article:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/425970-america-the-new-socialist-frontier