Primaries Make Me Believe the End is Near

Well, there is another presidential debate on the tube, and all I have to say about that is Jay-sus Christ (would not be amused).
I mean, seriously. I know this is on Fox News, so my standards should be appropriately lowered, but come on. This is stupid. This has reached a point of blatant, proud ignorance that I cannot even fathom. I would need to drink Drano to get to this level.
It's shocking, really, that we have an entire faction of people in this country who buy into this crap. Really? You think we should lower taxes? What kind of fucking economics class did you take, candidates? I missed the part where cutting taxes to nothing does something positive for the system. Guess what- taxes pay for things. They don't just pay for grandma's healthcare, they also pay for such abominations as roads, schools, national parks, state parks, mass transit, universities, libraries, and regulatory services that keep us good and dandy like the Food and Drug Administration or the Internal Revenue Service (yes, the IRS is a good thing). This is insane. This isn't even capitalism. (This is not Sparta, either.)
Let's talk about capitalism. You see, capitalism isn't "evil." It isn't "good," either. It's a system that looks one way on paper and another way when you add humans. Capitalism, at its core, is a system motivated by companies and economics. Is that a negative? I don't think so. Ideally, a company cares first about its customers, second about its employees, and third about its profits. Why? Because it works. See, when you care about your customers, they buy your products. When they buy your products, you have the wealth to take care of your employees. When you take care of your employees, they have the opportunity to be customers somewhere else, where they spend money and, indirectly, pay money towards the incomes of people who will be your customers. When you disregard your employees and don't take care of them, they cannot afford to spend money. If they can't do that, other people cannot earn money. If there's no surplus money in peoples' pockets, they don't spend it at your company.
This model makes sense to me. It seems to be capitalism, in that we have a constant exchange of money- a back-and-forth flow of wealth, if you will. However, this is not the model we currently use.
What we have is not capitalism. It's a kind of "corporate socialism," in that when companies fail to care for their employees and customers, those companies' leaders are assured economic survival by the government. Even in the cases of companies not directly given money to stay afloat, they still benefit from laws (or lack thereof) that address "golden parachutes" and legal liability for the failure of a company. As long as this system persists, these corporations have no real motivation to care about the welfare of their employees and the rights of their customers.
But I digress. I'm not an economics person by training, and perhaps I'm being a bit of an idealist. All I mean by this is that these candidates are incorrect when they claim to support capitalism. What they support is not capitalism, because it is an unsustainable system to promote the wealth of the few and ignore the welfare of the many. What they support is a system in which the government supports corporations and their leaders without regard to the customers and employees those corporations have scorned. That is more socialist than anything Barack Obama has done, but it isn't in the interests of the citizens. This is why I call it corporate socialism, and I am terrified of it.