Another no vote..
Why do you think that socialism is a downward spiral?
Hmm.....let's see....
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics murdered more than fifty million of it's own citizens, created environmental nightmares such as Chernobyl and the Aral Desert, not to mention the manufacture of thousands of pounds of hemorragic smallpox virus and the means to deliver them via ICBM over populated cities.
The Germans invented National Socialism. That worked out well.
The Chinese invented their own form of socialism under Mao. Mao murdered some 60 million chinese.
Cambodia had some socialism for a while there. Pol Pot and the Kmer Rouge killed fifty percent of Cambodia's population in the name of socialism.
Cuba's socialism is doing so well Cubans try to sail the Strait of Florida in rubber inner tubes and cardboard boxes to spread the news of how wonderful it is.
Zaire's experiment in socialism includes the printing of novelty 100,000,000,000,000,000 (I got enough zero's yet? I've lost count) dollar bills. this week. Next week they'll add some more zeroes.
North Korea is socialist. They've evolved a species of human that eats grass there.
South Korea is not very socialist. They've evolved a species of human that sells cars to other countries, there.
Socialism sucks the vitality out of every nation that's stupid enough to fall into that trap. The United States is no different, except that it has to violate it's Constitution to implement anything as stupid as a socialist plan.
Have you ever wondered why so much of the world's population embraced communism at one time?
No. Gullibility is a natural human trait.
What's more interesting is why a nation that avoided socialism and successfully destroyed the Evil Empire would turn around and start buying the lies from the con-men who sold communism to those other countries.
A whole LOT of lying to very young children had to happen there to make them believe they could steal their way into prosperity, when it's never worked before.