The American Spectator

p>Mr. Tucker, fear not for your son’s wandering into Marxism. When he begins working and experiences, first hand, the wonders of the payroll tax withholding system or opens the property tax statement on that new house, he’ll come back to the fold. br> — Joe Dougherty br> Orange Park, Florida /p> p> Voltaire may have inadvertently summed up liberalism most succinctly: “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” In other words, if you don’t believe in liberals’ vision of a perfect world and how to implement it, you’re the enemy — period. br> — Arnold Ahlert br> Boca Raton, Florida /p> p> I enjoyed reading Tucker’s essay about his Marxist son and it reminded me of a statement attributed to Churchill that a friend, professor, and mentor shared with me: “If a man is not a socialist in his youth, he has no heart. If he is one as an adult, he has no brain.” I’ve seen numerous variations of this attributed to different sources but none of that matters. The essential truth does. br> — Mark Long /p> p>