text: Left-wing and right-wing tyrants are all horrible.  No bass-ackwards intended.  But lefties tend to ignore the left-wing tyrants such as Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, whose reigns tried to establish utopian versions of socialism, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions, either by starvation or carnage, in the process.
  
  BTW, do you want the US to follow in the footsteps of Venezuela?  After Venezuela, the slope becomes slippy and results in totalitarianism.