I've got some good news and some bad news for you. The bad news is that more people than ever in the United States are in favor of socialism. The good news is they don't know what it is. Hi, I'm Scott out with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, there's a piece in the Wall Street Journal about a recent Harvard poll that asked people,

what do you think is a better economic system, capitalism or socialism? Capitalism still wins by 59% to 41%,

which is better than some other recent studies.

But it's still, as the Wall Street Journal opinion piece points out, it's still not a, you know,

kind of a stark rebuke of Marxism or anything. The most disturbing aspect is that socialism

wins among Democrats who say 54 to 46 that they would prefer socialism to capitalism.

And this should keep your antennae up when it comes to midterm elections.

Anyway, over the years the Wall Street Journal says various readers have rebuked them for using the word capitalism because it was actually a slur developed by communist and socialist to attack our economic system.

The new Harvard Harris survey, Steve, suggests that the term is not fully understood by people.

In fact, if you restate the question instead of which do you think the United States should have capitalism or socialism, if you say, do you think America should be run

mostly as a free enterprise country or under socialism? When they are asked this way, freedom

wins 76% to 24%. That is fascinating. That is absolutely fascinating. To take it a step further, I love that. Yeah.

Democrats vote for free enterprise over socialism by 68 to 32. So, Steve, I get the sense from this

that Enigo Montoya might step in here and say, you keep using that word.

I do not think it means what you think it means. That's not the quote I was thinking of. I was

thinking of Ronald Reagan. I think of Ronald a lot. I was thinking Ronald Reagan, who said,

I think on more than one occasions, it's not so much that our liberal friends are ignorant.

It's that so much of what they know just isn't so.

Yeah.

And that is one of the most beautiful lines in American political history.

No, this is great news.

And yeah, capitalism was coined by Karl Marx to discredit what is actually just human nature. Two people meet. And one guy's like, what do you got there? I like your stuff. And they're going to go, oh, I like some of your stuff. I'll trade you one of mine for two of yours. And, you know they, they haggle and they reach an agreement and they trade. And the only reason we develop

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