The vision of the left, and many conservatives underestimate this, is really a more attractive vision in itself. The only reason for not believing in it is that it doesn't work. If the world were the way the left conceives it to be, it would be a better world than the way the right conceives it to be. It just happens that the world is not that way.
— Thomas Sowell, Free To Choose: Common Sense in a Senseless World (doc) (Riley) (2021)
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