The language used to get such regimes in place has to do with eliminating “income inequality”, of getting rid of the Haves/Have nots, but the reality of such systems is a radical INCREASE in such inequality. This makes socialism a HIGHLY congenial form of government for elites, for people far, far, far above the middle class.
Do you think Obamacare affected Warren Buffet in any way? Bill Gates? George Soros? Would an economic collapse? It’s most likely that within a broad range, a collapse would HELP them. Those with money, in times when money is scarce, find everything and everyone is for sale and on sale for cheap.
Cuba is a two-tiered society, with a radical separation between the Party cadre–which has its own medical system, and probably its own educational system, and first claims on everything–and everyone else.
Here is the thing: if all boats are rising, then the system is not Socialist. And if the system is Socialist, not all boats are rising. Winners win because they are connected, not because of the quality of their work, or caliber of their intelligence. Losers lose because they don’t know how to play the Socialist game, or because they refuse to on principle.
When you are dealing with these truly horrible ideas, they are only made palatable through lies, through continual lies, through directed, conscious, carefully crafted lies, in which they say they oppose everything they support, and where they claim to support everything they in fact oppose.
They claim to get rid of the power of “corporations”, for which we might substitute “unelected elites”, but in fact they make unelected elites the only people who matter. They take them from relative influence to direct and absolute control.
Let us all pray we survive this time with our freedom and dignity intact. We are under assault by intelligent, well funded, determined people. They do not mean the rank and file among us any good at all. We are Untermenschen to them, irrelevant, to be used as and when needed, and then discarded.