Biden - Why? Financial suicide, page-38

Generally, lefties are protected from the worst of economic reality, most tend to work for govt, academia, "think tanks" and the like, [or outright avoid the labour market] - relatively few, are at the coal-face of private industry. This somewhat helps put into context their at times, irrational political decision-making.

The Unholy Trinity [plus one] of Our Age!

By Thomas Sowell -

1) Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
2) Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
3) It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Plus one:
[paraphasing here] - No-one is so sure, as the bloke who's never had to do it!