Communism and capitalism are both quasi-religious cults that don't work in the real world.  One leads to lumbering economic shambles that can only be propped up by an ever more jackbooted state and . . . the other leads to lumbering economic shambles that can only be propped up by an ever more jackbooted state.  The only salient difference is we've seen the collapse of one, and we're living the collapse of the other.  A realistic, middle path for government, threading the needle between both ridiculous extremes, and answering to the people, rather than "the Party" or the corporate oligarchs, is the only sane answer.  (And the answer the Founders intended, however badly we've gone astray beginning in the 1980s and 90s.)  "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both" -- SCOTUS Justice Louis Brandeis, 1941.