Barbarians within the culture

The illusion that drives the lumpentelligentsia, idealists, activists, the chattering classes and the general dogsbody-left-wing-morons remains the same; that is the idea that big government is the most benign and therefore best way to remake society into a one-world utopia where everybody loves everybody else (re: John Lennon's 'Imagine') where there is no 'religion dividing people' and there are no 'bosses' (evil capitalism) and therefore no poor or abused people. Note this response by an idealistic dupe in this excerpt and the realist Senator's logical gibe:

...former Texas Senator Phil Gramm was participating in a Senate hearing on socialized medicine, and the witness there explained that government would best take care of people. Senator Gramm gently demurred and said, “I care more about my family than anyone else does.” And this wide-eyed witness said, “Oh no, Senator. I care as much about your children.” Senator Gramm smiled and said, “Really? What are their names?”

The same spirit that drove Babel resides in the breasts of such dreamers.

Unfortunately history reflects the absurdity of this dream because history is a living record of how people who dreams such dreams are the first to fall victim to those whose only desire is to dominate.
Freedom is such a delicate flower. Capitalism is a potentially cruel system in the wrong hands but it is also the best system humans have devised that benefits the majority.
Democracy is flawed but infinitely better than alternative political systems:

It is precisely because economic freedom and opportunity outperform centralized planning and regulation that so many millions have risked everything for a chance at the American dream.

Fifty-five years ago, my father fled Cuba, where he had been imprisoned and tortured—including having his teeth kicked out—as a teenager. Today my father is a pastor in Dallas. When he landed in Austin, Texas, in 1957, he was 18. He couldn’t speak a word of English. He had $100 sewn into his underwear. He went and got a job washing dishes and made 50 cents an hour. He worked seven days a week and paid his way through the University of Texas, and then he got a job, and then he went on to start a small business.

Unfortunately history also reflects that when Utopian dreamers gain the upper hand within the culture forming institutions of their society's it is not long before the dominators usurp them and twist the heretofore beneficial systems into methods of plunder and pillage. And this plundering and pillaging might not necessarily take the form used by Attila the Hun, indeed take note of the way the Labor party of NSW plundered that economy and you witness a new type of barbarian at the city gates.

In 1976, Margaret Thatcher delivered her “Britain Awake” speech. In it, she said: “There are moments in our history when we have to make a fundamental choice. This is one such moment, a moment when our choice will determine the life or death of our kind of society and the future of our children. Let’s ensure that our children will have cause to rejoice that we did not forsake their freedom.”

If we don’t fight to preserve our liberty, we will lose it.