At the core of these ideas is government ownership of what is now the private sector.
Yup - and everything we take for granted, such as welfare, public education and Medicaid are definitely part of that.
What we ought to fear is not a sweeping switch, but incremental loss. A quote misattributed to Khrushchev warns us of this (I mention the misattribution because while he didn't say it, it's nonetheless true) - that adding socialism over time will culminate in communism.
The country won't flip to communism - but it may relinquish enough that it could get there over time. It's the old boiling frog thing.
It happens too slowly to notice right away.
I don't want government control of anything we have now that is in the private sector.
I have a lot of reasons, among them gross inefficiency, massive waste, bureaucratic nightmares - the private sector always outperforms
government SO LONG AS government is there to keep its ass to the fire. When the government is in charge, there's NO MEANS of holding
it accountable. Along with unbelievable cost (virtually every time the government gets involved, costs go through the roof) THIS is my biggest
concern - when the government is in charge of a thing AND is in charge of holding itself accountable for wrongdoing - we're screwed.
