"By blaming everything else but socialism and tweaking its definition, the Left has managed to keep it haute couture.
It’s a puzzle.
Over the last decade, Venezuela has supplanted Cuba as the Shangri-La of the American left.
Not long ago, self-declared socialist senator Bernie Sanders insisted that the American dream was more achievable in the Bolivarian Republic than in America.
A string of Hollywood luminaries made the pilgrimage to visit the socialist Mecca to say ponderous and stupid things.Today, the praise is more muted, because events have illuminated that stupidity.
The government recently advised its citizens to eat their pet rabbits.
Inflation in Venezuela is reminiscent of Weimar Germany.
Roughly 85 percent of Venezuelan companies have stopped production to one extent or another, in the most oil-rich country in the world.
And yet, socialism is arguably more popular — in theory — than at any time in American history, particularly among young people..."
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