Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
The real minimum wage is zero.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.