Why is America so crazy?

Capitalism is awesome.

So are hurricanes and earthquakes.

I wasn't being sarcastic.

Centrally-planned economies are nothing but vehicles for cabals, juntas, and despots to take power and ruin a country. History has proven it time and again.

Besides, markets are better indicators of what people want than some central planning board in the national capitol.

Capitalism is as open to corruption as socialism.

Yes, but the thing is a corrupted individual can do FAR less damage in a free market society than a centrally organized one. If there's a problem in markets (corruption, manipulation, monopolies, etc) then the government comes in to correct it. Then it backs off and lets the market run again...obviously there are exceptions (some fields will warrant some degree of government involvement or another), but they just prove the rule that people are best when left to think and decide for themselves.

If you're arguing for regulated capitalism, then I mostly don't disagree with you.

I'm no laissez-faire person myself. While I support privatisation and autonomy to a great degree, there has to be some limited oversight to bust monopolies and such.

The U.S is far more heavily regulated in many ways than I'd like (look at our corn market, if you want an example).

That said, there are merits to that approach; it allows our corn farmers to preserve their way of life, which is something I absolutely realize they treasure.