In response to this (re: The Left)

"Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democratic Party and they have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating GOP.

...a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole filled with perverse, tried-and-failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans."

Kim comments today:

"Tried-and-failed"… I must remember to use that one the next time I have to explain to some Lefty puke why socialism is a really bad idea."

It won't work.  History will not touch a socialist.  All past failures happened because the wrong people were in charge.  It's like trying to convince someone that his perpetual motion generator will never, ever work.  He knows, from direct observation, that it came extremely close on his last try.

That no one else ever made it work is proof of nothing.  There is a first time for everything, and our inventor knows, deep down, that he has the right idea.  The right idea will work.  Somehow it will work.  It must.  Then the major problems of the ages will be solved.  Just... need.... to keep... tweaking.

The problem with the socialist and with the perpetual motion inventor is they both fail to understand basic laws of nature.  Their theories violate those laws.  End of story.

The perpetual motion inventor I can tolerate-- he stays out of my face.  I can laugh at him from a distance and he'll leave me alone.