A new poll from Rasmussen Reports shows just 53 percent of Americans prefer capitalism to socialism. Twenty percent endorse socialism, and 27 percent don’t know. What does this tell us about where this nation is headed? Why do so few people understand what capitalism and socialism are? What do people think they are? And what’s the remedy to this appalling lack of knowledge about the American system? We ask Rich Brake, co-chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
