Like the rest of us, they may not be particularly gifted in any particular field of human endeavor, but business is the one area where poor performance can always be blamed on taxes, regulation, the government, foreigners, Leftists and Liberals.

But when they do achieve total political victory, they find that their businesses, their economy, their cultural and social problems, even their national success and prestige still do not improve--in fact, they deteriorate at ever-increasing rates due to their self-serving mismanagement.

AS Brother Dave Gardner used to say (in another context, of course); "What will the preachers do when the Devil is saved?"