Aight, I've said my piece and am open to correction. My main beef here, as always, is I just want more honesty from the left, be it on race, gender, or economics. Don't bullshit me about how there are zero downsides to socialism; admit that there are major problems endemic to centralized economies, and tell me your plan to minimize or solve them. I understand why there isn't more honesty; in the short-term, bullshit is selected for. But in the long-term, it ain't, and that's a problem.
And yes, I have higher standards of the left: they're more educated and they're the party I (with great exasperation) belong to; moreover, they're the party that inevitably seems to drag the world in its direction, so there's a responsibility to be responsible here, you see.