The Aug. 1 commentary in The Salt Lake Tribune op-ed from Rep. Chris Stewart and Rick Larsen, titled “We need a new way to discuss socialism” was garbled and misleading.
After noting the difference between socialism (complete government economic control) and social democracy (government sponsored social programs within the capitalist system), they ignore the distinction and go on to describe the failures of pure socialistic systems, all with the purpose of denigrating several prominent Democrats who have made aggressive proposals for social action.
The glaring omission is the lack of any reference to problem solving.