Reply #4: What is wrong with socialization? [View All]

The Right has spent 80 years or more demonizing socialization of basic services, but I can't think of a single instance where privatization has led to large-scale improvements in service except for telephone service.

In fact, privatization has made energy costs skyrocket and supply become insecure in a number of markets, it's made college education subject to tremendous inflation, and it's allowed the insurance companies to bankrupt patients and physicians alike.

The Democratic Party avoids the issue because the Republicans use it as a boogeyman, but that is going to be a non-starter for the GOP soon. When the Right cries "Socialism!", people no longer cringe in fear. When enough people are denied medical care and/or are financially destroyed by even minor illness, we will see seismic changes.

--bkl