Below  at the end of this commentary are two clips from YouTube which taken together capture the surreal world that the Republican presidential candidate(regarded as a "moderate" when he ran against Gingrich and Santorum) lives in.  The is someone reading from an American classic "How the Other Half Lives," by Jacob Riis, a journalist writing about proliferating  tenement slums of  New York as industrialization saw its population expand massively in the late 19th century.  Besides the words, Riis used a relatively new medium photography to show readers what he was talking about.

Riis was no socialist as any viewer can tell from the  first clip.  He looked to government, enlightened business, reformers like himself to address this issues.  And there were groups that were beginning to do that, including individuals like Theodore Roosevelt, a young member of the New York State legislature who supported tenement house reform.  And there through the country debt -ridden farmers and small businessmen demanded action by government against the banks and railroad barons, workers demanding an eight hour day, the right to form unions without being fired and blacklisted, the right to go on strike without being beaten and shot.  And of course there were those whom Theodore Roosevelt later caled the "malefactors of great wealth," whom others called Robber Barons--those who believed literally in the divine right of capital, said things like "God in his infinite wisdom" had given ownership and control over everything to them, and those who did not bow down were worthless, subversive, inferior.  Theodore Roosevelt, no socialist at home and an imperialist abroad called them fatheads and idiots when he ran into them as president during a national coal strike over a century ago.  Romney would probably call him a socialist and fellow Republicans like Robert La Follette a Communist today, based on the second clip from his recent locker room chatter about the "47" percent of worthless government dependent people who will vote for Obama.

It doesn't pay to address Romney comment with reason because they are not subject to reason.

I would suggest that our readers click on the Jacob Riis clip, then click on the Romney clip, then go back to the Riis  clip  to see the future that a Romney administration offers, the nightmare future of  hunger, disease, misery and oppression, that Upton Sinclair, who was a socialist, would capture in The Jungle, his novel of  working class life nineteen years after Riis wrote How The Other Half Lives and one hundred and six years before Romney  showed all who are willing to listen and learn  what he stands for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=87SCTEsIufY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nvqHERTcytI