Ever since the beginning of the cold war, we have cultivated an irrational fear of socialism that defies all logic while at the same time maintaining some socialism deeply ingrained in our society. It’s as though we can choose the socialism we like as long as we never acknowledge that it is socialism. In the eyes of most Americans, socialism is not just un-American—it is the anti-America. A truly balanced view would recognize that there are probably some aspects of our society that are privately controlled that would benefit from socialism, and, conversely, there are some aspects of society that are socialized that should be privatized.

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