We were living in the San Francisco Bay Area when Soviet Communism breathed its last. I remember watching the scenes unfold on television and noticing that none of the commentators seemed very happy about it. The people were celebrating their mass escape from tyranny but here in the United States the elites were displeased.
It didn't take much brain power to figure out why our intelligentsia were dismayed at the failure of communism, but if you still don't get it look at what San Fran Nan Pelosi did over the weekend.