The beacon of the liberal left is getting dimmer every year.

How many times have you debated a friend on the left who points to Europe as the model of what the US should strive to become?

What part of double digit un-employment, sky high taxes, and low productivity that leads to protectionism and to a future where their children cannot compete, is so appealing? Even the Times has taken off the blinders at least for today.

Their population is decreasing. That is bad. Why? When you have 1/3 of the population soon to be over 65 years of age, in a welfare state where the number of productive tax paying workers is actually shrinking, that is a recipe for disaster or revolution. I actually think that in ten or twenty years the young people of Europe may actually look towards communism as a viable alternative to the failed socialism they have grown up with.

Besides, Che Guevera t-shirts are great for picking up chicks.