But the more to the left the economy goes, the less prosperous it is, and there is a point when it comes unglued.

For myself as a Canadian, I can see that America is more “prosperous” in the sense that the averages look good, but I’ll take my socialized medicine and higher education thank you very much.

The immigrants to the US were pretty much people with nothing but a suitcase. With the American free market, the country rose from subsistence farming to superpower. Scores of millions of people were lifted out of poverty into the middle class and beyond.