Flirting With Relevance

Just to determine if everyone here is a robber baron at heart or just a lousy commie. (I kid, I kid).

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There is one thing on which President Obama and I agree. The current health care system in this country is broken. Not the part that actually provides medical care, of course. For most part, the doctors and nurses in the trenches are, on the whole, dedicated and competent professionals who take pride in their role in keeping us healthy.

What’s broken, I think everyone will agree, is how we pay for it; in other words: health insurance.

One of the more persistent memes are that I have encountered, especially since the economic meltdown of 2008, is the notion that fascism means rule by corporations. This is usually mixed in with other anti-capitalist rhetoric, but the equation of fascism to corporations was novel to me. Given the level of political naivete that normally circulates on the old interwebby tubes, I initially dismissed it as a bit of mental flatulence from some college sophomore with more time than political sophistication.