(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Getty ImagesSocialism, which is on the rise, should have no place in either of our major political parties. But bad ideas are like those Hollywood horror movies in which monsters always reemerge from the swamps to terrorize us again. Bad ideas don’t go away. They can appear to be slain, but all too often they slither back in various new guises to hurt humanity again. While the socialist threat is most ominous in the Democratic party, Republicans are doing themselves no good in this ideological battle by having the federal government take equity positions in private companies.