Patrick O’Hannigan argues that what The Angry Left really fears is that freedom is indeed the aspiration of most people around the world, except perhaps for the French. And if this is the case, then George W. Bush is right and they are wrong. For you cannot get to The Great Socialist Utopia if most of the people around the world really want American style freedom and democracy, or at least something like it. For Socialism what you need is a lot of people who think big government is the bees knees, not folks who want jeans, pizza, cell phones and nice cars with CD players. And in general when we look around the world we find that Freedom sells better than Socialism when people have a chance to choose for themselves. Selling Socialism requires explaining to people why it is better to stand in line for hours to get stale bread from the government bread store rather than going to Dominick's and selecting from a hundred different varieties. Elites don't get this, but many regular people do.
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