Rhetoric on Capitalism vs Socialism Falls to Stupidism

You won’t find stupidism in a dictionary, so don’t bother

looking. I just invented it.

There are many great

attributes to Capitalism, but it needs controls (and once had them).

Four out of the five best

nations in which to live, according to residents, are socialistic: Canada (no),

Sweden (yes), Denmark (yes), Norway (yes) and Finland (yes).

Now you can the positives and negatives on both sides and

discuss them intelligently, but all too often that’s when stupidism rears its

ugly head. And ugly it is.

Shall we fiddle with definitions?

One calls socialism ‘a political and economic theory of social

organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and

exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.’

Catch that owned or regulated part? Community as a whole doesn’t own the interstate highways, rural

electrification, social security, Medicare or our over-stuffed military. But

government does regulate them, or at

least tries to. In the case of the

military and privat…