"How can free markets possibly produce better results than socialism??"

One of the biggest failures of understanding by leftist/socialist/"progressive" leaders is, How can self-interest, free markets and competition produce such great results? 

They simply can't understand why the "poor" in Amerca are fat, have big-screen TVs, 500 channels, high-speed internet, air-conditioned homes and are driving cars, while most of those living under socialism are starving in the dark.  How on earth could the virtuous "command economy" of socialism--run by elite Hahvahd graduates--possibly produce worse results than the horrors of self-interest and free markets?  It's simply un-possible!

It must be all lies--perhaps witchcraft!  

When your ideas don't work, the first thing the pushers of those ideas do is invent a new excuse for the failure--like "REAL socialism has never been tried!"

A-yup.  You bet, sparky.

So to salvage the Dems' cherished socialist plans, the Lying Mainstream Media and party leaders have invented a new excuse: IF socialism has...um...had spots of trouble (maybe in some country south of the border, starts with a "V" but the mainstream media dare not speak of it), it's because anti-socialist forces (nations) are stealing from socialism. 

Yes, citizen, it's all the fault of saboteurs, capitalist wreckers and CIA plotters.