Jake Tower, writer of the documentary “Surviving Socialism: Don’t Get Sucker Punched,” talks about his motivation for writing the film. He explains why they named the film, saying, “that’s literally the effect that this poll—showing 70 percent of young people would vote for a socialist—is having on older people. It’s like, ‘Wow.’ They just feel sucker-punched, like, ‘Where did that come from? And I haven’t been paying attention.'”
He talks about how three major democracies—Great Britain, India, and Israel—tried to implement socialism, but rejected it after it failed. “What happened? Like all socialist economies, it eventually goes bankrupt, and then they, Margaret Thatcher in Britain for example, privatized all the socialized industries and Great Britain went from being the ‘sick man of Europe’ to one of the world’s greatest economies,” he said.