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Transcending   “Better”   Capitalism; More Succinct than   “Utopian”   Socialism. Photo by   Intricate Explorer   on   Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . Each American as a different view of what capitalism and socialism mean, or what they expect from these two theories of economics, and their political underpinnings. Some portion of Americans dislike both, but most have stronger negative or positive feelings about one or the other.   “Better” capitalism,   for many Americans, may just mean more socialism plugged into capitalism, or those focused on socialism as the path forward may dislike my use of the term utopia. Yet that is a big problem with both capitalism and socialism; Americans are all over the map on how they perceive each theory because our understanding of both is varied, and is   anchored   at several levels. Plus each can be multilayered with myth, and misinformation, encouraged or directed by frien...

Photo by   Thomas Curryer   on  Unsplash . . First published on Medium . . The French Revolution ended in death and destruction, then decades of on and off authoritarian monarchs, emperors, and others, oh my! The 1960s slid into Tricky Dick’s downfall, Swans Singing for Vietnam debacle, Disco, Ronnie Reagan, mass incarceration, welfare deformation, W’s Iraq War, and finally Traitor Donnie Trump, a boar bore. Of course, conservatives like to blame the 1960s on other occurrences and changes in society over the last five decades. That said, if we compare what the baby boomers did to what inspired the French Revolution, we can see both clearer. . Obviously, guillotines were never employed during the mid 20th century in the United States. Yet, there was a national, and more intensely, racially construed and pursued,   law and order   clamp down , during and after the riots in Watts, around passage of the civil rights acts, due to Martin Luther King’s murder, and prot...