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"Think about how much their health care and standard of living will improve!"

Your comment reminds me of an outrageously leftist polemical documentary I saw about twenty years ago on the situation in Nicaragua. The moonbat from California went down to Nicaragua to ~~tell the real story~~present a political polemic on what was going on in Nicaragua. He and his crew were walking through some rural village and they walked up to a man standing outside his front door looking at them suspiciously and they struck up a conversation.

The guy asking the questions asked him about how he felt about the ousted dictator Somoza and the guy said he hated him and was glad he was dead. The documentary correspondent seemed to take heart at hearing this.

He then asked the guy what he thought of the Sandinistas and the guy said that he hated them more than he did Somoza. The correspondent asked him why he felt that way. The guy said that the Sandinistas wouldn't let him say what he thinks, and then he began talking about freedom of expression in rather articulate terms, more so than you might expect from a poor guy living in backwater Nicaragua. The guy concluded by saying he was backing the Contras.

The correspondent was shocked and so was his looney left wife. They both immediately began asking him "Don't you know the Sandinistas are giving you free health care?" "Don't you want to know that the poorest in Nicaragua will be fed?" "Don't you want to know that the big farms of the rich are being redistributed?"

The guy responded in Spanish "es el precio de la esclavitud" (it's the price of slavery), which the documentary's subtitle translated as "it's not worth it."

Your post just brought that back to mind. Forgive me if I got somewhat off-topic.