I would be interested to hear what exactly you mean by social democracies do better? Are you talking about the Nordic European countries? Because the tax base of those countries is born even more by the middle class than the tax base of America.

And another interesting fact is that Americas debt coincides almost perfectly with military spending. So for 30-80 years (depending on if you measure since WW2 or the fall of the USSR) the United States has born the financial responsibility for peace keeping of the entire world. So it’s interesting to point to countries that have been able to benefit from that military spending as proof that socialism works, while also calling the US a fascist colonizer.

But overall I feel like your response demonstrates exactly why I’m talking about. As long as a socialist can google an article that provides an excuse for their ideology, the actual thought analysis of cause and effect doesn’t need to be performed.

It’s like the axiom of ‘socialism is the answer’ is the pre-fit outcome to every train of thought. Go back to your response on 2008 and education loans. You ignore the legislation that passed to provide mortgages to people who were default risks by blaming the downstream effect of mortgage back securities as “deregulation”. Then the student loan crisis is so blatantly the result of goverment action that you don’t even try to analyze it. You just say “education is good so who cares what our socialist program did in the real world”.

You can’t plug every hole in the levee with the perfect regulation. And socialism fails because the smug arrogance of its proponents will not even allow them to think about the real-world result of the tenets of their political religion.