Dragged, Kicking and Screaming—Socialism in America

It’s been said many times, but things said many times are often

true: Socialism for the rich, democracy for the poor. Too big to fail

infers that the small are the natural inheritors of that tiresome chore.

Yet things said many times are

often not true, even by very wise men: “The inherent vice of

capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of

socialism is the equal sharing of miseries”—Winston Churchill

And yet another: “The law, in

its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under

bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”—Anatole France

These were of course the quotes of wealthy and well regarded

men, but we Americans are already socialists and our most cherished

institutions are socialistic to their core.

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Would anyone seriously undo the Eisenhower

interstate highway system and its ubiquitous opportunity to dine on fast-food

at every junction?

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Are social security, the national power grid,

public schools and the world’s largest military a b…