Why is Socialism still a thing?

Why has socialism returned like a cancer from remission? I blame the Blue Socialists, the Managerial Socialists, the Tories. They made it respectable again. Thatcher use the word socialist as a term of abuse whilst post Maggie it is seen as something that can be tamed and and managed and thus has been detoxified and rendered innocuous in the eyes of the public rather than perceived as something to be universally rejected, feared and held in contempt.

Hence Corbyn. Yes he has fanboys and girls in the tax funded universities who should have to take a gap year in some socialist hell-hole like Venezuela, Cuba or North Korea before they are allowed anywhere near a UK ballot box but too many adults who should know better are behind this wittering incubus and his sinister henchman Macdonnel, the cold assassin of liberal values and individual rights the very rock and foundation of whatever prosperity and financial freedom is left in this compromised mixed economy.

Should Corbyn win there would be a flight of capital, a run on the pound, its value would drop on the international markets by as much as 25%. Some civilian militias could form having no doubt previously acquired and accumulated arms caches on the black market and prepared for such a dire eventuality and there could even be a revolt in the higher echelons of the military itself, tanks on the street and martial law declared. The Marxist ringleaders would be swiftly arrested and jailed whilst a coalition government was quickly formed and another election declared in a week's time to effect a smooth transition to civilian rule.

Too far fetched? Perhaps, but consider the implications of a Corbyn victory. The US would immediately declare its special relationship with the UK officially dead. It would assume the status of  a hostile player knowing all that is known of Corbyn's allegiances with every low life scum terrorist outfit across the world going back decades. It would be ranked alongside Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea as countries not to do business with. It could no longer be part of Nato or even the EU as the latter, contrary to what many hold, does uphold some standards of decency and liberal norms which a Corbyn government would by its very nature contradict at every turn, hence Corbyn's instinctive animus to the EU for the longest time.

Old people trudging in the snow  voting to prevent a Marxist dictator coming to power in a winter election must be the worst thing to befall this country since the blitz and its hard to believe its not just a terrible nightmare from which we will at some point awaken with a shudder but no it is actually happening. But what can we do about it?