Don, you have just eloquently explained why I have been in favour of socialism all my life.

However, when people are brought up to view "socialism" as a dirty word, and made to think that it is somehow synonymous with dictatorship (which it certainly is not) then one can hardly expect them to think straight about it, can one?

Meanwhile, America lurches on in the grip of its own mythology... imagining itself to be the greatest society on Earth.

- LH