If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists. -Frederick Von Hayek

Every year, it seems like another batch of college students graduate with more ideas and delusions of grandeur regarding socialism.

As delightful as the whole thing sounds to this generation, the optimistic ideology of socialism is just not practical for application in the real world. We’ve seen it time and again through historical experiments...

If you need to debate some young'uns or even your own children about the proposed merits of socialism, you'll need some solid talking points to effectively get the message across. To make your case for a free America that continues to flourish, here's 5 reasons why socialism will never work:

5. It's the Back Door for Communism

Firstly, socialism has been proven to be a backdoor for communist systems of government and methodologies. Socialism means maintaining a roughly centralized government, but then allowing the government to take resources and redistribute them as is deemed “necessary”.

Communism, in theory, means that no one owns anything and everyone shares resources. This destructive ideology led to the USSR and countless atrocities during the Cold War. Given communism’s proximity to socialism, it’s no surprise that many socialists end up becoming communists and bringing their countries to ruin as a result.

4. Destroys the Drive for Productivity

In addition, socialism may very well destroy the natural drive for productivity that has led the US to become the most prosperous country in history.

Without the drive to create and earn money, what would people do all day? In our eyes, many people would laze around and lose the very meaning of life: to do good work and earn things for one’s family.

3. American Businesses Will Leave the US

Even if the United States adopted socialism as a federal mandate in a hypothetical future, many American businessmen and businesses will leave the US for capitalist countries. For example, giants like Amazon and Jeff Bezos would quickly jump ship, as will Elon Musk and all of his companies. They’d take their jobs and resources with them, too.

As American businesses leave the US, our economic output would decrease and our prosperity would shrink as well. This would be the beginning of the end of America being the best country on the planet.

2. Resource Redistribution

At its core, socialism requires resources to be redistributed. While this sounds good in theory, in practice, it opens up the central government to lots of corruption. Who gets to decide who gets what? Who gets to decide which groups are more deserving of extra resources?

These are tough questions for everyone, but putting that power in the hands of any centralized government is a recipe for disaster.

1. Division of Wealth Doesn’t Work

Lastly, we’ve seen from history that dividing wealth doesn’t really work as intended. Instead, people contrive ways to accumulate wealth at the top of hierarchies and ladders. Thus, wealth inequality becomes even worse under communism and socialism than it currently is under capitalism.

Capitalism, in contrast, ensures everyone gets a fair shot at becoming wealthy. For these reasons and more, we know for certain that socialism will never work in America and at large. Capitalism could use some work, to be fair, but it’s best to streamline and improve our current system than to tear it all down and begin from scratch.

As you know, socialism is a slippery slope toward communism - and anything we can do to prevent this insidious concept being programmed into the minds of America's next generation is critical.

One further point: The dogma of socialism disappears under examination too, because a vote for socialism must be decided on by leaders, forcing thousands of policies on everyone. Doesn't sound much like the people are in charge, eh?

Stay strong patriots. God Bless America.

Justin