During an interview on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” President Obama stated that “the label Socialism doesn’t make that much sense in a context where there’s no economy that doesn’t have some Socialist elements,” and “if we have a big chunk of the country that just discounts what 99% of scientists say completely” on climate change, “it’s hard to figure out how we move the democracy forward.” Obama said, in response to host Bill Maher asking what the president thinks about the idea that some things shouldn’t be for the profit motive, “[F]irst of all, in some ways the label Socialism doesn’t make that much sense in a context where there’s no economy that doesn’t have some Socialist elements, meaning that there’s some common goods that we all agree everybody should have. That’s what Social Security is. That’s what Medicare is, to some extent, what public schools are. We all chip in to make sure that everybody, no matter the circumstances of your birth, have these baseline goods. And, as you know, I felt pretty strongly that healthcare should be one of those goods. I’ve also said in the past that if I were designing a system from scratch, I