re: They aren't "socialists" any more, either.
"They completely ignore the fact that every single nation that has ever modeled itself on Marxism ended up as a totalitarian nightmare of poverty and atrocities, with death barriers to keep their own people from fleeing like animals from a burning forest."
But it just needs the right kind of tweeking. It's just a matter of teaching a huge bureaucracy to be nice. C'mon Tom let's give it another try. What is the worse that could happen? [Besides the tens of millions of people dying, the brutal poverty, and utter forsaking of any humanity.]