Republicans love "corporate socialism" for themselves but don't want "human socialism" for us as in health insurance/single payor health insurance. Mr. Ridgeway is an excellent writer but still needs to write with more clarity, for most of us, to understand how the Republicans have reaped the benefits of this system of government and when it turns sour, we/the middle class, pay the cost.

This country apparently believes in magic, both black and white. The magic of words more than anything so that "socialism" is black magic and "American exceptionalism" is white. One wonders if Senator Bunning even has a passport or has ever actually spent any time in France. The quote from Krugman was perfectly phrased. All in all, Ridgeway's piece is a good if limited picture of both the kerfuffle of financial juggling and the mysterious reactions of the American public.