Socialism through a different lens

In the letter titled “Why I voted for DeVries,” the letter writer said he was responding to letters that suggested that Rep. Greg DeVries held radical views and therefore voting for him was a display of ignorance. The writer listed radical views allegedly held by the “D” party, then concluded by saying, “Until the ‘D’ party returns to sanity there will be no votes from me on that side of the ballot.”

To summarize: Someone implied those voting for DeVries were “ignorant,” and someone retaliated by implying those voting for the D party were “insane.”

I’ll try to step away from name calling, and examine one of the letter writer’s unsupported hypotheses, namely that “socialism has been a failed economic system wherever it has been tried.”