You sound like me, when I was in middle school.
Capitalism good, socialism bad!
This is a particularly silly thing to say considering every developed economy in the history of the world is a mixed economy. They are all their own shade of gray on the scale of complete socialism and complete capitalism. Every developed country on Earth could be labeled as "both," and it's worth noting that currently none of them are seeking out a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist utopia. They're pretty content with their bit of socialism.
But I think there's a still a pretty easy way to explain how absurd this statement is. The United States is somewhat socialist to go along with its capitalism, but certainly other countries are
more socialist to go along with their capitalism. So shouldn't I be able to ignore "bad capitalism," and just ask why more socialist countries are simply
not losing every time?
Things like life expectancy, why are the more socialist countries not getting beat?
How do you explain more socialist countries having higher median incomes? Why aren't they losing?
Why are the more socialist countries beating us in the classroom?
Currently a few of the more socialist countries even have better credit ratings. Dafuq??
Why don't they have worse violent crime rates?
etc, etc, etc. If capitalism, even bad capitalism, is so undoubtedly superior, how do you show that with data? It seems like the Right blames government for our problems and proposes attacking government as the solution, when countries that are beating us use even more government in their solutions. It just seems weird to me that someone can go around making blanket statements like that without looking at the rest of the world, then to couple it with stating that acting like the rest of the world a bit more will turn us into Greece or Venezuela it's just A+ stuff.
