the provincial government administered the universal health-care system established by Canada, and the people sometimes voted for the socialist NDP. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the most talked-about new member of congress, is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Despite everyone’s attempt to explain it, a universal health system will sound to conservatives like the first step on the road to the gulag. Perhaps we might withdraw the word “socialist” and substitute the word “co-operative.” Americans accept one enormously complicated national system, far more impressive than the country’s health system in its present condition — the roads. They are a mutual community project for all of the country, and absolutely necessary for maintaining American civilization.

Source: National Post February 22, 2019 14:03 UTC