More like learn the wrong lesson. I mean how many times has socialism and communism failed, for example, and we still have idiots arguing for it today?
I've met and known these people.
They are losers, no seriously if you look at their mentality they are losers they simply do not have that spark to compete, or have the ability to be happy with what they have. Under a socialist regieme they would have a few good years, maybe a decade with a really good economy to run into the ground.
Notice that in Vensula they had a few good years before they ran out of peoples money and started to have to eat litteral garbage same principle. This is a selection of people that would gladly murder every one around them, betray their closest family members, and friends, and run litteral death camps just to have maybe 5 years where they are personally successful.
They are some of the most profoundly selfish assholes you will ever met, and having worked as some one who served them food they are just plain horrible to the people who serve them. At this point every one knows exactly what the outcome is these people simply do not care.
So you know evil instead of stupid.