fear of abandonment

Ignoring for the moment the very good question of why there is a younger generation of American socialists, we ask instead what this younger generation does with the fact that the older generation's intellectual leadership eventually abandoned the cause.

Robert Heilbroner "It turns out, of course, that Mises was right...."

John Kenneth Galbraith "You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

Apparently, they're in denial.