what AR might not have seen as she viewed the US turning into a socialist state is the fact that the US government has established agencies that are working at enslaving the productive part of the population. observe ALL of the rules and regulations that have been put in place not by the congress but by agencies such as the EPA and OSHA to name but two. how about the use of executive orders that come from the president.
now I learned that a memo from the DOJ allowed states to chose to vote for legalizing mj.... only to see a new head of the DOJ send out a memo recinding that recognition of states rights.. so I ask you who is in charge? BLANK! the stark reality is that those following my generation are versus will be confronted by a growing mass of new rules and they will be forced to comply or die. my observation is that the USA is experiencing a combining of communism and socialism into one versus one or the other. the world I was born into no longer exists!!!

That statement isn't entirely true being that Socialism can only work under threat of force! As every Soviet era schoolchild knew, Socialism was a weigh station on the way to full blown Communism and Communism was dictatorship!

It was and still is a sham and construct of a totalitarian society that can only exist in conjunction with some Orwellian dictatorship.....

For these reasons, people like Bernie Sanders keep selling the snake oil that "Democratic Socialism" is some benign and non-threatening panacea and antidote to Capitalism.

Fools teach this garbage and idiots buy into it! For what its worth!

I enjoyed Maggie Thatcher's observation, "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." Then there's Churchill's view, "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Socialism, like Communism, once established, can only be maintained by threat of force. When a system survives only by the sword or gun liberty is dead.

Voting for socialism is the final outcome dream of the American progressive movement.

Very good...

I'm assuming your wife is alright with property rights being upheld by a limited government? If so: Whos lake was it? Wouldn't they sue the company who dumped in it?

She was one smart human!