Dude, you need to recognize the difference between an economy and a government power.  Socialism is an economic system.  The problems in Venezuela are governmental. Yes, their economy has many aspects of socialism but it is the government itself (who controls that economy through authoritative means) that is the cause of their strife.

But please, tell us again how it is socialism itself that is the problem.  We'll wait.

This is why socialism doesn't work well, even in smaller doses. Most people who are intelligent, hard working, good decision makers, etc, won't put up with this. It's one thing to help the needy on a personal level, and another for Gov to heavily promote making bad decisions. The more socialist idea's that get implemented, the more the people propping everyone else up will stop caring, and soon enough you run out of money because literally everyone expects free Gov handouts. Why bother trying to make something of yourself now, when all you need to do is bide your time until you can have your mistakes and poor decisions erased by some politician?

The unfortunate truth is that people need to learn, and sometimes the hard way, which is baked into capitalism.

People shouldn't expect easy bail outs for doing stupid shit. That's getting their cake and eating it at the same time.

One of the biggest lies you can tell a kid these days is that they "can be anything they want" when they grow up. In some cases, if they're privileged enough, it's true, but in most, it's not.

An example, I went to college and studied art. A totally fucking useless thing. Stupid. I should've become an electrician, or a plumber, or something that I could actually make a living out of. Instead, I wasted my time on something that I'd have to catch lightning in a bottle to make a career with.

Like the morons who choose gender studies, then wonder why they're back living with their parents, have no money, and a ton of debt. We've got no-one to blame but ourselves and expecting others to pay for our mistakes is an insult.

Why don't students all get the same grades?

Is it that some are better than others in ways, or is the system flawed?

What about the less intelligent people? Feeling lesser due to poorer grades. Feeling lesser because they know to a certain degree their future is likely more bleak.

Why are we allowing these intelligent people to hold their intelligence over others? Why do those intelligent people need to awarded with higher grades?

Let's try this again.  How are the grades of the intelligent and less intelligent students relevant to funding post-K-12 education?

That our hyper-capitalistic society that profits from debt is failing us and that it celebrates profit generation over education.

"Hey, let's all get educated for the betterment of society but only if you can afford it.  If you can't afford it, you can't help further our progress."

Are we just going to ignore the fact that K-12 is already socialized?  I'd really love to hear 1 solid reason why it should end there. 

Presumptions? Man, it happened to me. Can you not read? That's what I went through. I live in the world where your reports, polls, and surveys don't matter.

Always nice to have a Champagne Socialist with no real world experience talk down to you, isn't it?

Oh, and yes, they are the ones begging. There's a reason why Democrats are using it as a talking point. Shamelessly pandering to them.

A father confronted Warren during an event in Grimes, Iowa, on Monday about her plan to roll back student loan debt for “about 95 percent of students who have debt.” “I just wanted to ask one question. My daughter is getting out of school. I’ve saved all my money. She doesn’t have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?” he asked.

“Of course not,” Warren replied.

“So you’re going to pay for people who didn’t save any money and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?” he asked. “My buddy had fun, bought a car, and went on all the vacations, I saved my money. He makes more than I did. I worked a double shift,” the man pressed before accusing Warren of not taking him seriously. “You’re laughing at me,” he said. “Yeah that’s exactly what you’re doing. We did the right thing and we get screwed.”

“I appreciate your time,” Warren stated as he walked away

I think this man makes a valid point and there a discussion to be had about debt forgiveness for those who already paid their debts. 

You want a more equal society, yet you're ok with teaching kids growing up, that it's ok if not great to use their capabilities and the school system to do better for themselves in comparison to others?

Then once they're done school, you want to teach them that was all B.S, and that they aren't any better than anyone else, and need to blend in or pay the price to others for trying to be better than them?