I had really hoped that, with the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, that the leftists in America would wake up and see it for the failed ideology that it was. This realization, based upon observable facts, would have brought forth a new confidence in the Free Enterprise System, based on Liberty and Law as outlined in the Constitution.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
I recall a period in the wake of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe where the lefty MSM in the US was feeding us the theme that "Communism is dead!" That was a "curve ball" thrown at us with the hope that we would let our guard down.
How could communism have been dead then when there were still regimes in China, North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam, as well as some scattered Third World countries? The American commies may have lost their beloved USSR, but they still had their strongholds in the big cities and on college campuses. Today, they seem strong enough to cause problems in city streets at a moment's notice - like OWS.