I hate this line of reasoning, because it almost always end up asserting why America should not adopt socialist policy X, because socialist countries fail. Whe

I hate this line of reasoning, because it almost always end up asserting why America should not adopt socialist policy X, because socialist countries fail. When it is pointed out that policy X is currently active in Sweden, France, or Japan, it is handwaved away by saying how these countries are too small/too big/too sparsely populated/too densely populated/culturally homogeneous/just plain culturally different. Apparently Venezuela and Cuba have so much in common with the USA, unlike those exotic places like Canada or Sweden, whose culture we barely understand.