Regular readers are occasionally annoyed that I devote time to attacking Lefty Fundamentalists. I sympathize.
My response is that I used to feel the same way about Stephen J. Gould spending his time criticizing the Creationists and their Evolution-by-Design successors. 
Now I’m grateful to Stephen. He knew the material, was an honest and calm advocate and he did a good job that no one else did.
I hope to emulate Stephen, until someone else comes along and does the job.
What I am proposing is the outline of a book, maybe to be called The Final Epitaph of the Left.
The book would show how seven tenets of Lefty Fundamentalism are empirically wrong. The seven tenets are:
1. Equality of income has been a human ideal. It should continue to be.
2. Global commerce is exploitive of workers and the environment.
3. People would not be poor if they were given reasonable financial assistance.
4. Large corporations are generally malevolent and should be constrained.
5. Religion is the opiate of the masses.
6. There are classes in America.
7. The top class protects its interests at others expense.
I’ve tried not to overstate nor understate these tenets. I don’t believe I’ve neglected any.
The goal of the proposed book would be to offer empirical evidence that contradicts each point. The book would be imitating what Gould did to reject Creationism and Evolution-by-Design with solid evidence.
Most Modern people prefer evidence to religion, and the proposed book will rely on the good will of Modern readers in that regard.
1. Equality of income has been a human ideal. It should continue to be.
2. Global commerce is exploitive of workers and the environment. Both of these issues can be treated with one set of empirical evidence.
The evidence is based on a measure of income inequality called the Gini. It will be necessary, in the book, to give an explanation as well as a history of the idea of the Gini measurement. The evidence would be presented verbally, but would be derived from a chart that ranked countries on the left by their Gini number with the lowest Gini (greatest equality of income) on the top and highest Gini number on the bottom (greatest inequality of income). The top of the chart would have Japan and the industrial nations, with the U.S. at the bottom of the major industrial nations and the list would continue on down with the former communist nations all the way at the bottom with Latin American countries, the third world and at the very bottom, the underdeveloped nations. Income inequality is worse as economic development lags.
The empirical evidence is clear that industrial commerce promotes prosperity, creates a middle class and drastically reduces income inequality.
The second column would show the growth rate of physical consumption by country. Wealthy countries are on a downward path, consuming less physical product per capita each year. The third column would show population trends. Again, wealthy countries have declining populations, poor ones are growing too fast. Poverty hurts the environment in many ways.
3. People would not be poor if they were given reasonable financial assistance. There are many cases where this is demonstrably false. I would pick the case of Hawaii, where the native Hawaiians ended up with a great fortune in several foundations dedicated to native Hawaiians. Having massive amounts of money spent on Hawaiian children (more than any government could ever spend) has not increased the test scores in education, the high school graduation rate, nor any other measure of health and success.
4. Large corporations are generally malevolent and should be constrained. The data on this comes from the work of Alice Tepper Marlin. The stock market performance of environmentally-positive and socially responsive corporations is about the same, but not worse than “bad” corporations. The socially responsive corporations do a little better in earnings and stock value. The evidence of economic benefits to socially responsible global corporations is even stronger for international employment practices. The empirical evidence clearly shows that being a socially unresponsive large corporation doesn’t have any rewards in and of itself.
5. Religion is the opiate of the masses. This presumably means that nations with religious populations are more likely to be duped and manipulated by their leaders than non-religious nations. The body count generated by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Saddam Hussein and a few others who governed with secular institutions have done a good job of empirically disproving this tenet.
6. There are classes in America.
7. The top class protects its interests at others expense. The last year the traditional New York Blue Book was published was 1960. That marks a move away from class elites to meritocracy in America. Good studies have been done for twenty years by sociologists. The best was American Elites by Lerner and Nagai. 1800 interviews with the leaders of 10 occupational categories found virtually no social or family interconnections and few political or economic common interests.
Empirical evidence is overwhelming that class has been replaced by merit, with no reliance on old-boy club networks or school ties.
Who would buy this book? I don’t know. Stephen J. Gould seems to have subdued much of the anti-evolution crowd and moved many along to the less absurd Evolution-by-Design stance. Maybe this book could move some lefties out of their religious stance, into a more meaningful dialog.