Ghost of a flea

The history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes.

Glorious workers’ revolutions lead to tyranny. Welfare causes misery. Government-funded tertiary education ends up subsidising the same proportion of private school and state school students as previously attended universities under full fees. Public broadcasting evolves into elite programming funded by people who never watch or listen to it. Decades of state film funding gives us films nobody pays to see.

I could go on. Hey, I will: Environmentalism. Thanks to its capture by leftists - degenerates from a positive save-the-critters movement into a freaky death cult. Multicultural tolerance now extends to tolerating intolerant monocultures. Give the Left a shot at anything and they’ll wreck it; even something as elemental, safe and proven as nuclear power becomes a molten mess in the hands of commies.

Marxist Hugo Chavez is currently hammering his nation’s economy into the ground despite Venezuela being an oil-rich OPEC nation. Fertile Zimbabwe is dead beneath socialist Robert Mugabe.