Unless you're willing to seriously engage with the 'communist hypothesis' your laments will never gain depth. You'll be trapped vacillating between the 'hope' that this or that liberal pol is a 'good person', willing to do the right thing and angry disappointment when things turn out as they almost always do.
^^^ CB: Isn't the notion of a "communist hypothesis" a sort of liberal approach to communism ? (See Lenin; smile)