For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing
For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing David Strom 8:00 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Manuel Valdes I always find it surprising that beautiful, caring, socialist-inspired ideas never seem to work. Communes...they sound so wonderful, don't they? Well, all right, they sound like a version of hell where you have to live around a bunch of Bernie Sanderses, but you get the idea.
- ▪For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing David Strom 8:00 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Manuel Valdes I always find it surprising that beautiful, caring, socialist-inspired ideas never seem to work.
- ▪Communes...they sound so wonderful, don't they?
- ▪Well, all right, they sound like a version of hell where you have to live around a bunch of Bernie Sanderses, but you get the idea.
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For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing David Strom 8:00 PM | July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Manuel Valdes I always find it surprising that beautiful, caring, socialist-inspired ideas never seem to work. Communes...they sound so wonderful, don't they? Well, all right, they sound like a version of hell where you have to live around a bunch of Bernie Sanderses, but you get the idea. The idea has a certain appeal to many people, and you would expect that socially-minded people could find a way to make their little slice of heaven work, right? Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); They never, ever do. They always crash and burn.
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