Found this insightful summary of our predicament out on the Intertubes:

“Consider that next year, the children born the year the Berlin Wall fell will turn 30. This means that everyone under 30 really only knows the barbarism of Communism through their Howard Zinn influenced history books and leftist history teachers (if they haven’t gone out of their way to learn Marxist/Leninist history and its massive body count). Today they really only know socialism in the Scandinavian sense and the incoherent ramblings of Bernie Sanders and ‘the tart from Brooklyn.'”