I feel the same way about Obama and Bush.
The United States will endure a shot of socialism. If it is weak it will correct itself with private industry to fill the gaps as supply and demand mandate in a free market economy. To have, for instance, a government medical program by its very existence does not remove the ability of the industry to compete. If medicine became socialized, the cost of private medicine would plummet to the point of affordability in order to survive. It all comes at a price, no doubt... I am just saying... something has to give, and in contrast to having a dingy milf with a BA in Journalism (with credits from 4 schools) it is a survivable condition. I mean... it does seem to work pretty well for every other modern country. It is also policy, and is reversible.
The United States cannot endure incompetence in leadership. Say what you want about the proclaimed ideology... the man is educated enough to MAKE a decision given intelligence and does not become a puppet of any writhing, speaking in tongues, protecting from witches nonsense to guide them. I see American politics today like a game of D&D where the opposing forces are all pawns of two ancient dragons named Soros and Murdoch, while the victorious in this fruitless battle of ideologues loots the other side. All it does is distract us from real enemies.
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"
You're wrong about the entire medical field thing.
If the government socializes medicine quality will fall, the high tech goodies that mark American Medicine and make it so expensive will end up in junk heaps not being used.
Instead of being employed for their own benefit doctors will become slaves to the government, and to the insurance companies, who will of course be the ones reaping the benefit, as they will be the ones that capture the lucrative contracts to manage the expanded Socialist Medical Care Program.
The only losers will be Doctors (who already get shafted by both the government and the insurance companies) and Patients (who also get shafted by the government and the insurance companies).
The winner of course is the Insurance Companies, especially the big ones, Aetna, Anthem, United HealthCare, and maybe another twenty, in a field of thousands of private corporations.
Socialized Medicine will destroy the United States by destroying the Medical Insurance Industry and leading to the outright socialization of the entire nation as unemployment surges to over 20% (30% real.)
Not to mention your failure to explain how doctors could compete with Socialized Medicine (unless there is an opt out.)
The problem is that Socialized Medicine would be paid for with taxes, and would ostensibly cover everyone.
How can that (a service that is forced upon you that you have already paid for, and should might as well get.)
compete with the free market (a service that you have yet to pay for, but would have to pay for if you got it.)
One is already paid for (albeit through coercion, fraud and force)
and another is not already paid for.
If the government socialized medicine only a liberal would think that paying for medical care would make any logical sense...
Avatar girl EXCEPTED!