I'm befuddled. How can people who have witnessed the repeated and sorry results (however well-meaning) of ultra-liberal politics ... Detroit; Castro's Cuba; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Venezuela; the state of California (and many of its locales); Greece; the old Soviet Union; and on and on and on ... still consider that such an orthodoxy is a winning strategy? Is it that they don't see ... or if they see, they don't understand ... or if they understand, they only seek the narrow and short-term benefits for themselves?
I dearly wish I could appreciate and possibly even decipher such obsessive and guileless behavior.
Afterward: I think that there actually is another category of Marxists ... and that is comprised of those people who believe, Christ-like, that they are helping the downtrodden. But clearly this aid is only temporary because, longer-term, the predictable result is that they are always worse-off ... witness the above list. Rather, "Teach a man to fish ..."
