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My fear of Romney is that is he pro-socialized medicine

While I strongly believe in free market economics, the problem with Obama care is not that it is socialized medicine, but that it is crony-capitalist medicine. A lot of folks are getting paid off a lot of money to do not much in particular. Even genuine euro-socialism is better.

It is an important point in this article. While we scream about socialism, the American disease is crony capitalsim. It is killing us and conservatives have to stop giving a free pass to the latter because they are afraid of the former.

I agree with that. The thing that some people call "crony capitalism" is, I think, simply Fascism. I say America today is a fascist society (and I don't mean that the way Leftists mean it: "hateful and mean"). I think our economic system, and our social contract, is now based on the notion that if you help the politicians, the politicians will help you. And if you cause trouble, then all kinds of bad things can happen to you because we've got a zillion laws to bring down on top of your head.

Back in around 1911, Hillaire Belloc wrote "The Servile State" which basically says that socialism always leads to tyranny, and that capitalism always ends up allied with government, thus leads to a form of socialism and thus to tyranny, or "the servile state". Belloc would probably say that we are all serfs under a system of fascism that was born from what was designed as a free market economy but which got corrupted by politicians helping their friends.

I believe in the free market. I just don't think we've had a free market in this country for the past 100 years or so. We've just been sliding into tyranny.