content: and he wasn't elected by the people in the first place.  Whether the socialist was elected or not is completely irrelevant, so it should not be an argument against him. The whole point of socialism is forcibly redistributing wealth from the high-IQ and productive to the low-IQ and lazy. Arguing that Allende would be acceptable if only he was properly elected would imply that forcible wealth redistribution would be acceptable if only the low-IQ and lazy outnumbered the high-IQ and productive. Well, guess what.