Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“There is generally no good way to run large scale A/B political experiments. Which is why, at least until the current college generation, we all thought the study of history was so important. … We can look at history and see what happened when Communism or hard-core socialism was tried in the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuela, Eastern Europe, Argentina, and most of the countries in Africa at one time or another. Incredibly the historical experience is absolutely clear — communism leads to poverty and loss of individual liberty. Every time. It’s like 0 for 65. Its failure is the greatest betting lock in the world. But here we go again in NYC …” (10/30/25)