It's easy to be the great guy in the bar when you're buying rounds on someone else's dime. Uncle Bernie is peddling poison and calling it craft brew. If you encounter someone who's feeling the Bern, listen patiently as they wax enthusiastic about the coming socialist utopia...if only we'll all wise up and elect him. When they're done, offer to buy them a one-way plane ticket to North Korea, Cuba, or Venezuela, but only if they’ll stay there for a year. That, of course, is not what they have in mind, and those nations are not, of course, the intended models for the United States. Intentions, of course, don't mean squat. You shall know socialism by its dark deeds. Nothing would be more gratifying than seeing its proponents discover darkness the hard way. Unless, of course, they take the rest of us with them.

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