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Column: Superlatives don’t belong in politics

Buy Photos I give you fair warning: This is largely a lecture. One given often, but always desperately needed. The president recently vowed that the United States would never be a socialist country. Regardless of your own political orientation, that statement is the kind of idiot, superlative claim that I constantly warn students against. Both of these propositions are nonsense without nuance. : “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” Making this statement was stupid on its face regardless of the content of the ACA. To my second point, guess what, people: as much as capitalism is here, socialism is also in large degree already here and not going away. Many people in American, and also global, political economies in the developed world seemingly prefer the provision of certain goods and services through public funding as opposed to private venture. I will work to that end.” Nuance is not a sexy sell however, and no amount of grammatical nagging by an educator will change much about that. Sponsored