again (that is what we call the Human Condition isn't it?). Indeed it takes a lot, a lot of time for the Human specie to evolve... I lived and experienced socialism and liberalism to a certain extent and I am now able to understand what is wrong with socialism. In what way it hurt me. I used to hold socialist views. Also I can tell you for exemple that the French are mostly paralysed because of fear. They are associating liberalism with anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-human rights mostly because of some very bad politicians like Romney, Bush or Sarkozy. This is what is happening in the US too. For the masses the 'direct individual rights' are more importants than the market freedom because they do not have the knowledge nor the education to understand the underlying relations. And to understand them you need time to educate yourself... (Romney would have not changed the education system neither). There is an episteme now created and associated with the word "liberalism". Again guess because of whom? In our case not Obama but Romney. I am definitely not convinced Romney would have done much better than Obama in term of economy anyway. To do so he would have had to change a lot and his program did not show anything going that way. I do not think it is safe and sensible to follow someone only because he has "the image of an entrepreneur influenced by Ayn Rand" and do not say what he is