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Seeing as how he has demonstrated the ability to read, it's obvious he's old enough to know better.

When I was in my teens, I was a conservative. As I get older, I become more leftist as I read more history books. Entire countries have been formed on the basis of similar ideas. It's childish to think they can be dismissed flippantly.

I like to pretend that I don't pick sides. I might be left leaning because the existing system clearly isn't efficient enough to be left alone.

Not flippantly, no. But USSR and its authoritarian ilk can be dismissed on the basis that they ended up worsening the conditions of their residents relative to similar countries that didn't try such experiments.

OTOH there's still the libertarian left. But Soviets and other leftist authoriarians were always as hostile to it as they are to anyone right of them.

This is a cheap shot. If you have a point to make, you should make it directly.