Socialism Has Yet to Generate the Utopia It Promises

It is a fair bet that Sen. Bernie Sanders (and most of his followers), unlike tens of millions of others, never read George Orwell's Animal Farm or Friedrich von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Why do so many embrace a system — socialism — that has always failed, whether it was a form of state socialism or the various utopian communities started in the United States and Europe over the last couple of hundred years?