re: What is your definition of socialism? And why or why not is it an effective system?

The United States has become a victim of its own success. The capitalist system here has built the highest standard of living the world has ever seen. However, at the same time we have ever more growing dumb and lazy population that can vote. They are warped by the narrative that if they don't have what their neighbor has it was because they were discriminated against in some way. As others have said, the dumb will vote themselves into power and destroy the whole system, its already happening.

When I was in middle school the groups of kids were split into three classes, college prep, middle, and low. Socialism would be like taking everyone's test scores and averaging them out and giving everyone the same grade.