One has to be able to see ahead. When someone offers you a gallon of gasoline for free and then hands you free matches...

The mouse doesn't recognize the cheese on the trap is his demise. Likewise the poor masses are often ignorant of the trap they are getting into with socialism or communism which looks so appealing from their perspective.

Down here I see the poor all the time. I see how they create self-perpetuating poverty based on bad life choices and how their children repeat the same mistakes creating an endless cycle of poverty, desperation, fear and feelings of inferiority, frustration and resentment.

For some the lure of the cheese is too great.

*snap*

For others the free gas and matches seems just too good to pass up.

*strike*

*boom*