Socialism (and its progenitor, communism) has failed, often brutally and with fatal consequences, wherever it has been tried. So, why do American snowflakes, millennials (and their college professors) continue to push for it so strenuously and ceaselessly? Take the sad case of the once gorgeous city on The Puget Sound:
https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-homelessness
Check out this excerpt from the article above:
"...according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County, yet the crisis seems only to have deepened, with more addiction, more crime, and more tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. By any measure, the city’s efforts are not working."
LOL...for $100,000 you could build a nice house from scratch for each homeless person EACH YEAR. Are you kidding me? I am so glad I am not a taxpayer in Seattle. I would have been arrested at a city council meeting for protesting this absolute insanity MORE THAN ONCE by now, I am pretty sure. Somebody is getting rich, and I kinda doubt it is the middle class, hard-working Seattleans that are supporting this lunacy. Even Frasier Crane must be rolling over in his liberal T.V. grave...
Here is another excerpt:
"(Socialists) have constructed an elaborate political vocabulary about the homeless, elevating three key myths to the status of conventional wisdom. The first is that many of the homeless are holding down jobs but can’t get ahead. 'I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing,' O’Brien told the Denver Post. But according to King County’s own survey data, only 7.5 percent of the homeless report working full-time, despite record-low unemployment, record job growth, and a record-high $15 Seattle minimum wage. The reality, obvious to anyone who spends any time in tent cities or emergency shelters, is that 80 percent of the homeless suffer from drug and alcohol addiction and 30 percent suffer from serious mental illness, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
The second key myth is that the homeless are 'our neighbors,' native to Seattle. Progressive publications like The Stranger insist that 'most people experiencing homelessness in Seattle were already here when they became homeless.' This assertion, too, clashes with empirical evidence. More than half of Seattle’s homeless come from outside the city limits, according to the city’s own data. Even this number might be vastly inflated, as the survey asks only 'where respondents were living at the time they most recently became homeless'—so, for example, a person could move to Seattle, check into a motel for a week, and then start living on the streets and be considered 'from Seattle.' More rigorous academic studies in San Francisco and Vancouver suggest that 40 percent to 50 percent of the homeless moved to those cities for their permissive culture and generous services. There’s no reason to believe that Seattle is different on this score.
The third myth: O’Brien and his allies argue that the street homeless want help but that there aren’t enough services. Once again, county data contradict their claims: 63 percent of the street homeless refuse shelter when offered it by the city’s Navigation Teams, claiming that 'there are too many rules' (39.5 percent) or that 'they are too crowded' (32.6 percent). The recent story about a woman’s 'tent mansion' near the city’s Space Needle vividly illustrated how a contingent among the homeless chooses to live in the streets. 'We don’t want to change our lifestyle to fit their requirements,' the woman told newscasters for a KIRO7 report, explaining how she and her boyfriend moved from West Virginia to Seattle for the 'liberal vibe,' repeatedly refusing shelter. 'We intend to stay here. This is the solution to the homeless problem. We want autonomy, right here.'”
In other words...never try to discuss FACTS with socialists and Communists. These are not important them. The only thing that matters to socialists and Communists supporting their own warped world view at all cost, regardless of however much real-world evidence directly contradicts their bogus assumptions. AND...so there I have answered my own question from my opening paragraph. These people DO NOT CARE about historical truths. They are not interested in learning anything from history, as these are "different times with different circumstances," and because they fully expect to be the beneficiaries of cushy apparatchik-style roles in their newly-established utopias.
Until, inevitably, the reality smashes them flush in the face.
These people think they are raging against "capitalism," when we haven't had true capitalism in this country since the inventors of socialism and communism replaced it with their faux crony capitalist monopoly in the 1880-1920 period...But, that's a subject for another article....
(NOTE: All images are actual photos taken IN Seattle.)