Rational People Fear Big Government, Not Big Business

Jewish World Review ^ | 5-22-12 | Dennis Prager

[ReformationFan]

You cannot understand the left if you do not understand that Leftism is a religion. It is not G0d-based (some Left-wing Christians' and Jews' claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those characteristics is dogma. People who believe in Leftism have as many dogmas as the most fundamentalist Christian.

One of them is material equality as the preeminent moral goal. Another is the villainy of corporations. The bigger the corporation, the greater the villainy. Thus, instead of the devil, the left has Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, the "military-industrial complex," and the like. Meanwhile, Big Labor, Big Trial Lawyers, and, of course, Big Government are leftwing angels. And why is that? Why, to be specific, does the left fear big corporations but not big government? The answer is dogma — a belief system that transcends reason. No rational person can deny that big governments have caused almost all the great evils of the last century, arguably the bloodiest in history. Who killed the 20-30 million Soviet citizens in the Gulag Archipelago — big government or big business? Hint: There were no private businesses in the Soviet Union. Who deliberately caused 75 million Chinese to starve to death — big government or big business? Hint: See previous hint. Did Coca Cola kill five million Ukrainians? Did Big Oil slaughter a quarter of the Cambodian population? Would there have been a Holocaust without the huge Nazi state?

Whatever bad big corporations have done is dwarfed by the monstrous crimes — the mass enslavement of people, the deprivation of the most basic human rights, not to mention the mass murder and torture and genocide — committed by big governments.

[DB]

Voters voted for big government. Big government is what makes crony capitalism work.

Voters hold the ultimate power over government - but most those voters like big government, or we wouldn’t have it.

[familyop]

Big government, big business—same thing. Try building something or a tiny manufacturing business in a scenic part of the West. Then find out who the so-called environmentalists are really connected to through family ties, former employment or NGO.

Stop feeding the anti-competition regulators. Become more self-sufficient.

[Carry_Okie]

Voters voted for big government. Big government is what makes crony capitalism work.

Again, you are wrong historically. Hell, crony capitalism was in place from the time of Senator Lincoln, who had made his name doing eminent domain deals for barge companies and railroads. Better read that article.

There is a reason the Progressive Era immediately followed the Gilded Age. It was long after big government acquired its powers that voters began to wail for its protections. It was the astronomically wealthy that proposed the income tax. Yes, the people could have done something about it, but by then every institution of public information (aka big business) was against them.

[the invisib1e hand]

obsessive capitalists refuse to acknowledge that all aggregations of power oppress freedom; that “big business” is a really handy tool for and enables big government feed its insatiable lust for power.