[Pecos]

From the article, 'H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."'

Funny, I always thought that was the calling card of modern Leftists.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Well, they did set up Plymouth Plantation as a collectivized agricultural settlement in the beginning causing much misery, starvation, and the like.

But they learned fast and William Bradford put them on the fast track to private property and free enterprise capitalism.