[Bob]

He evidently did not learn the lesson.

I think he learned it quite well - By having the government control everything, you and your elite friends can live the good life. If there are hoards of peons living in squalor, so what? You can live far enough from them so that you'll never even notice them. It's not as if their lives count for anything.

[Bob]

In case I was unclear - the you I was referring to in my previous post was Coons and his fellow elitists running the socialist government, not you personally.