Everywhere you look today here in the United States, there is a crisis: Social Security, the drug war, Medicare, Medicaid, the monetary system, the banking system, the financial system, FDIC, welfare, terrorism, immigration. There is obviously a common denominator in all this: the federal government, and specifically its socialist and interventionist (and imperialist) programs.
But we're not supposed to say that. Instead, we're expected to repeat the official mantras that everyone is taught in public school and in state-supported universities: The reasons for all these crises and failures is deregulation, insufficient regulation, the wrong people in office, speculators, greed, OPEC, terrorists, Muslims, illegal aliens, or whatever. We're simply not supposed to even suggest that it's the system itself that is the problem.
The government is micro-managing every aspect of society and it's hard to see that changing as we gaze into our hazy crystal ball. The public is grumpy and muttering under their collective breath but still looks to the new administration to deliver them out of this quagmire and does not seem to realize who put them there in the first place. Are we headed towards Socialism or are we already there?
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