Experience is the best teacher – or so says the conventional wisdom.  In practice, the most common lesson is that too many folks never learn – especially those encumbered by ideology.  Or as a philosopher might put it, "what we learn from history is that no one learns from history."  Worse still, those who cannot, or will not, learn are prone to repeat mindless behaviors.  Call it tone-deaf.  Better still, call it political autism. Alas, while Western culture swirls in the crapper, Brussels and Washington political elites still insist on flushing. Social democracies are probative.  In Europe, the left learned little from the implosion of social globalism; learned nothing from the Islamic jihad; learned nothing from "humanitarian" interventions; learned nothing from the Muslim immigrant tsunami; learned little from the Brexit; and more recently, seem to have learned nothing from the election of Donald Trump....(Read Full Article)