New Socialists Are Taking over America

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Socialism in the traditional sense-government ownership of the means of production and state control of jobs and incomes-- is dead. From Leningrad to Managua, those who thought they had all the answers simply couldn't deliver the goods.

Still, here at home, while the United States was off winning the battles for free enterprise and limited government around the globe, an expansive, litigious and belligerent form of neosocialism surreptitiously gained a foothold right under our collective noses.

In ways that Lenin would envy, vague and fluid laws paired with jackpot penalties for petty misdeeds have empowered government to tell us what to do and how to do it. …