Big Government Runs Out of Old White Conservative Men

Big Government Runs Out of Old White Conservative Men

A warning this time- not for conservatives, but for progressives.

Earlier in the year, I wrote about a trip I took to Cambodia and witnessed firsthand the legacy of destruction wrought  by the Khmer Rouge. When the Khmer Rouge took power, they began by emptying the cities under the auspices of  making the country safe from Vietnamese and/or American Forces. Then the Khmer Rouge  began rounding up doctors, lawyers, college professors and anyone who appeared to be of the educated or political class.

Not long after, it turned its attention to citizens who did not produce enough for the state,...