Is socialism endan^gered in The United States?

[MDMAlliance]

fatslob-:O said:

MDMAlliance said:

fatslob-:O said:

Maybe not all capital assets are privately owned but a large portion of it is.

There's a lot of Government control in our market.  Too much to be accurately described as a "Capitalist state."  This is true for most places, actually.  Capitalists would prefer the government to be as small as possible, or not even there.  A completely free market unhindered by things such as taxes and laws.  That is if we are going for a purist argument.  Even if we weren't going for the purist argument, though, we still contain many non-Capitalistic features. 

And that right there is the reason the US is going in the toilet because of government control and regulation but it's single handedly being done by democrats and maybe a little bit of republicans but mostly dems.

I wouldn't say so.  The Democrats and Republicans are very similar.  They are very centrist compared to many other parties that exist in other countries.  If you think about it, there aren't very many issues that the Republicans and Democrats fight over.  The reason you probably don't think about it is because of the fact that the things they don't fight about are second nature.  

edit: When I say "second nature," I mean that it would SEEM like it is.  Not that it literally is.