It's mostly Anglosphere people who do that: Americans, Australians, Canadians, &c. Notice, for instance, the Sanders campaign in 2016: 'socialism' is great because America will be like Denmark or Sweden (notice, not more like East Germany or some other basketcase: it would more harm than help the wannabee socialists of the world to uphold such states as examples).

That always struck me as simply misattributing the successes of high-IQ, homogeneous peoples to ideology.

If 'socialism' ever comes to America, it will be close to the dysfunctional Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan varieties, except without the social conservatism still defended by many of the Chavistas and Sandinistas. A Nicaragua writ large, but with far more homosexuals and transsexuals? People will be fleeing from rather than to that socialist America: Mexico will suddenly be wishing that America built that damn wall.