but but in a perfect world they would work. . . right??!! wait isn't that what animal farm was told to us it was about, communism doesn't work and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - maybe there was a little bit of a point in taking brit lit in high school.

The commies/socialists have had nearly two hundred years to polish their spiel, incorporate disinformation /propaganda techniques, muddy the waters with historic revisionism, infiltrate the schools/colleges (http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/deliberate_dumbing_down.pdf), Hollyweird, etc., and await the best time to strike (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/why-are-there-suddenly-millions-of-socialists-in-america).

Remember that for the last two generations history began when they were born. They know nothing about most of the 20th century.