education, health care, housing, and food security in America, and about the dire need to reform and improve them. But the leftist insistence on nationalizing these services and resources in order to make them free—as if the various failings in these sectors can be attributed to the mere existence and legality of private ownership—contains dangerous echoes of the North Korean model. Again, to believe that the answers to social problems lie not in innovation, creativity, and a certain measure of personal and communal responsibility, but rather in the centralization of state power and the
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This problem that you and the right insist is utterly unsolvable is of your own making. The fact is *unfettered* capitalism does not work, but the right has done nothing but fight every regulation, check and balance that's ever been devised. So when anyone looks around and notices the obvious, that the market really doesn't work without them, then you start screaming that opponents want to "do away with" capitalism or "make everything free". The system needs regulation, and in refusing to allow that it is you who is creating the problem.
