To address your points:

Does "argument by assertion" mean that the statement is wrong? Of course not!

I have never been in Malmo, but I have traveled extensively in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, and, at the time, I thought that they could serve as models and goals for America. I still believe that they are ahead of us.

"There's no evidence that any plan is unfolding in evolution."
Nor is there any evidence that there is no plan at all, but we'll save that for a rainy day. To address my statement, I feel that Socialism is higher up the food chain than capitalism, and is a necessary next step in the evolution of a society from a dog-eat-dog jungle to a utopia ( a goal to which we can aspire, but which I do not expect to reach any time soon).