(Neither do I have to much use for Bill. He is considerably- and hypocritically – more polite to Stewart than he is to others – Ron Paul, for e.g. – because not only does Stewart have his own show to come back on, but Stewart can probably make mincemeat of him since for one he can laugh at himself. Bill can’t until he gets past his own oily smugness.)

As for “socialism” check out Tom Rose’s definition, late of Grove City College.
Fascism is the college level version of govt. control, regulation and collusion with big business; communism is the high school level with outright govt. ownership of business and the market.

That means we haven’t had a free market since the New Deal, if not the institution of the cartel/monopoly of the Fed.Reserve which price fixes the interest rate.(Yippee!) But we have had fascism. Now not only is that more overt, Obam nationalized Detroit. The Repugs are upset – not in principle, mind you – but at the brazen speed of it all.

In other words, both parties are merely wings of the More Big Govt. Party and both are at least fascist, if not more. But the pot can hardly call the kettle a trotskite, which is what the neocon right wants to call the progressive left.

Right now the Tea Party is working through this paradigm with the libertarians vs. the neocon Right fighting it out. If it doesn’t get straightened out, all we are due for is more of the same from the Repugs who replace the Dims. Scott Brown after all, voted for Romneycare and Eva Pretty Palin is but the conservative Affirm. Action feminist big govt. narcissist alternate to the progressive big. govt. narcissist BH Obam. Yippee again.