Taxonomic clarity.

If anything, current conventional practice might be accurately described as an all-out anti-capitalist assault on democratic free enterprise.

We are all familiar with deliberate political obfuscation: "fascism" as right-wing, "multiculturalism" as a cover for displacement of whites, "racism" as a distraction from the truth of an opponent's arguments, etc.

Too, the left rails against the present economic system as though its failures were the epitome of pure capitalism. Naturally, this requires more state intervention to fix.

The reality is otherwise. At best, our system is a form of crony capitalism, quasi socialism, or pseudo capitalism.

Mr. Yiamouyiannis has a fuller list of descriptors and says it's "corporate socialism, crony capitalism, cancer capitalism, plutocracy, kleptocracy, oligarchy, neofeudalism" and points out the intentional destruction underway.

We pay a high price for such intellectual confusion. The very Constitution itself was stood on its head in 1861 and eviscerated in 1937 and at other times since then. One reason Americans are so complacent is that they are taken in by the idea that the Constitution of the Framers' time still exists and that they still enjoy its protections. We are decades past the point when we could say that we are protected by the rules of law.

Our illusions, however, are gleaming and pulsing with life.

"The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, and Cascading Default." By Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Of Two Minds, 2/13/12.