I'd like to live in a world in which happily married gay people have closets full of assault weapons to protect their pot. - Glenn Reynolds

Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation aimed at normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.

A socialist is someone who wants politicians to decide who gets what; a "democratic socialist" wants the politicians to at least stand for election first.

[S]ocialism does have a siren call — essentially, the promise that if you vote for socialists, they’ll take stuff away from other people and give it to you. Since many people would rather have free stuff given to them in the name of “fairness” than have to work to get their own stuff, it’s never hard to round up votes with that approach. As the saying goes, a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can count on getting Paul’s vote.