You should be ashamed of being an idiot. A few socialist are actual intellectuals ivory towers. The vast majority are useful idiots or sheep.I've little doubt you are of the latter.What are Ben Stein's credentials? He might as well be one more RWnut posting here.
So anyone that disagrees with your perverted sense of entitlement and socialism is a RWnut? My question to you is can you read a financial statement, and do you read, or do you just recite what the media spews on the boob tube?
My guess is what you hear, what your friends say, and see on the tube is the basis of your opinion.
Sad to see our educational system has sunk so low.
I'm am not ashamed to be a socialist. Capitalism should be tolerated only to the point where it starts to do harm, and then, out of common sense, good people should intervene to rein it in.
What's wrong with that philosophy?