Charles Stanley: US "heading in a direction that is going to be disastrous for us, for our children and the generations that are to come"

Wall Street Journal: [URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487045189045753653527536687… Obama and the Pink Scare - If the president is a ‘socialist,’ the word has little meaning.[/URL]

we talk about the subject [socialism] only in the most abstract terms. More than half of us believe the president is a socialist, but we have few self-identified social-democrats on our op-ed pages or Sunday talk shows to show us what one actually looks like.

No pundits go to the northern plains to study the state-run Bank of North Dakota and find out how it managed to weather the financial crisis without incident. No one wonders how the nation’s municipally owned utilities happened to avoid the pitfalls of electricity deregulation. Or how the citizens of those plains and those municipalities remain free after having paved their roads to serfdom so well.

Instead we turn to books like South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s 2009 best seller, “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide Into Socialism,” a long meditation on the horror of socialism that never really settles on a definition of what socialism is. Or Newsweek’s famous 2009 cover story, “We Are All Socialists Now,” in which “socialism” is jokingly taken to be a synonym for “French.”