PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Next week, I hope to propose a spiffy new tactic for defeating the forced collectivization of medicine that presently looms over all of us, thanks to the increasingly Marxist aspirations and activities of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and an army of other criminals attempting to advance a political and economic philosophy—in fact, it's nothing more than a license to steal whatever they want from the Productive Class—that was obsolete decades before any of us were born.

In the meantime, we should all remember what Ludwig von Mises observed in his great Socialism, the principal appeal of which (the ideology, not the book), he claimed, is that each of its advocates secretly imagines himself at the top of the hierarchy-to-come. You can see this almost sexual lust for power plainly in creatures like Robert Reich, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, and especially both of the Obamas.

Some of them are almost drooling at the prospect of owning our lives.

But socialism's "stars" are by far not the only ones who imagine themselves at the pinnacle. Wake him (or her) up in the middle of the night, and the merest mailman, pool boy, garbage collector, school board or city council member shares exactly the same political BDSM fantasies. It's the reason that collectivism has gotten as far as is has.

So the next time you find yourself arguing with one of these pocket Lenins, hit him from an unexpected direction (as I've long advocated) and disabuse him of any notion that he's going to be in charge of anything except (revolutionaries being the first people the new regime disposes of) his own square foot of mud in the concentration camp. If you can deflate whatever motivates him to work for everybody else's enslavement—you may not see the effect immediately, but it is sure to spoil his daydreams and maybe even give him nightmares for months and years to come—you will have achieved a victory for individual liberty.

Have fun.

L. Neil Smith, Publisher and Senior Columnist The Libertarian Enterprise

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