Exactly, yeah. It really is baffling how both the argument against socialized medicine and the argument for socialized road infrastructure both somehow became a

Exactly, yeah. It really is baffling how both the argument against socialized medicine and the argument for socialized road infrastructure both somehow became about freedom— one is the freedom to choose where and when and whether to get care, and the other is the freedom to go wherever you want in your personal vehicle at no cost. Or maybe it's about what you didn't pay for? Freedom is not having to have your taxes pay for someone else's surgery, but roads are a good deal as long as you drive as much as possible on them? Anyway, as a four season bike commuter and mass transit fan, it seems to me that being a slave to automobile manufacturers and oil companies and urban sprawl is the opposite of freedom, but I don't have a century of concerted propaganda on my side for that position, so most people look at me like I have three heads.