“Exactly right. Utopia is right around the corner if only we are willing to blindly follow the Democrats’ enlightened leadership.”
The left, including my oldest son, will not so patiently explain that we are completely distorting what they want. When pressed for details they mumble something about Scandinavian countries, and how it could never happen here.
The same people who are holding up other socialist systems as the ideal have never lived under those systems — and are not even committed enough to try it.
It also reflects an ignorance of geographical, cultural, economic and historical differences between countries. The Left doesn’t want to be confused with all those inconvenient facts.
The reality is that those promoting socialism are too comfortable living under the benefits of capitalism to leave.