"This is leftism's great strength: it's all white lies. That's its only advantage, as far as I can tell. None of its programs actually works, after all. From statism and income redistribution to liberalized criminal laws and multiculturalism, from its assault on religion to its redefinition of family, leftist policies have made the common life worse wherever they're installed. But because it depends on--indeed is defined by--describing the human condition inaccurately, leftism is nothing if not polite. With its tortuous attempts to rename unpleasant facts out of existence--he's not crippled, dear, he's handicapped; it's not a slum, it's an inner city; it's not surrender, it's redeployment--leftism has outlived its own failure by hiding itself within the most labyrinthine construct of social delicacy since Victoria was queen." -- Andrew Klavan