Fireside Chats, Episode 64: In Defense of Socialism

Summary: Socialism -- particularly of the Democratic Socialist variety -- comes up fairly often on Fireside Chats, and not typically in the most glowing of terms. More than a few listeners have taken issue with that since the the show began, but only one -- Sean Clinton -- offered to come on the show and make a spirited defense of the political ideology. Better yet, Sean, who was born to an American soldier and a German mother in Europe, and lived in Germany for most of his life, benefited a great deal from a system that he thinks could, in turn, benefit plenty of people in America (and elsewhere). Not only does he offer a different way of looking at the European experience. He thinks that experience, in many ways, may be the superior one.