¿Por qué los colectivistas son tan impermeables a la realidad?

Porque lo que vale son las intenciones. Los resultados son lo de menos:

From Greece to Italy to California to Wisconsin to Obama’s Washington, the verdict is in: the democratic statist model of trying to provide cradle-to-grave benefits, administered by an elite technocratic class, using demonization to bully the opposition and redistribute income, not only does not work, but cannot ever work.