Socialism is BS. Don't be fooled.

There is nothing wrong with equality as the EFFECT of good policy and tied in with other good effects, but using it as the sole CAUSE of your policy decisions is ridiculously stupid.

If everyone is starving, everyone is equal. Does that mean you have a super wonderful perfect economic system? Of course fucking not.

The communists were tyrants before they even decided to be communist. They knew that if they chose a fallacious ideal like communism they could place "equality" above freedom of speech and human rights once they got into power.

"The people in harge were bad, that's why communism didn't work." is a fucking stupid argument. Of course bad people exist and will get into the government. How old are you? 5? The reason why communism is flawed is because it has little to no safeguards against tyranny. There is no much use complaining about how Stalin lives in opulent splendour whilst your children starve if you are living in a "dictatorship of the proletariat". The founding fathers of the US made Freedom of Speach their 1 priority from day 1, that is why we are a democracy, because not being executed for speaking your mind is a little more fundamental than whatever good would come from handing all your property over to the government.

Remember. With capitalism, EVERYONE WINS! It doesn't matter if some win more than others.

Communism =/= socialism. Communism doesn't work, Socialism can. For instance, the US could afford to be more socialist. IE, it could encourage small business instead of big business, it could close the ridiculous gap between what a CEO is paid and what the janitor at that building is paid (we have one of, if not the biggest gaps in this respect). We could start caring about the middle class instead of the top 1%, and start caring about American manufacturing before we are fucked. Socialism doesn't automatically mean "let's all hold hands together, turn in our stuff to the government and wait for our food rations". Outright Capitalism is stupid, as is outright Communism, it's the middle ground that is the sweet spot.