Its surprising how many people don't understand this fact. It was like during the Tea Party protests where people are talking about government overreach by saying keep your hands off my Medicare and social security.Its crazy how people don't understand we already have a mixed system. We are just talking about expanding and improving on what we already have lol.
The only time the US had a Laissez-Faire like capitalist system was during the Gilded Age before the great depression where wealth inequality was at its greatest and led to the Great Depression and the fix to many of the issues of the Great Depression were socialization programs such as Medicare, social security, and federal job and infrastructure programs.