Why do you think the specter of socialism is haunting the American ruling elite?

[Repuke I]

Maybe they are waking up to the fact that their so called global free market capitalism is unsustainable and is now self destructing. If so they must also realize that the propaganda they have used to maintain their power in the past cannot continue to work. Their anxiety is therefore in exact proportion to their ever increasing inability to control the flow of information and the values that people assign to the information they encounter. Without control of public opinion with what means of control are they left? Brute force can to easily be turned and often does turn against it's masters. They do know their history after all.