Great writing skills, Electro, and of course you've got it exactly right.

As an American who has lived in Europe for well over a decade, it shocks me now to see how sacred the word Capitalism is to Americans. To say anything negative about it, or anything positive about Socialism, is blasphemy and apostasy. I know there's a rich history behind why this is, but it still surprises me -- no shocks me -- that otherwise intelligent individuals will lose their minds over such issues, much like religious fanatics. This article above is a good example, and reads like a fundamentalist tract. Unfortunately, I feel America has become a failed experiment of what happens when Capitalism is not tempered enough.