Posted on 04/18/2019 6:46:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As we slouch toward another election season, capitalism once again finds itself under attack. Democratic presidential candidates are caught between an unspeakable truth — that capitalism is the greatest poverty-eradicating invention in the history of man — and an electorate veering sharply toward socialism. Er, I mean democratic socialism.
Over the next eighteen months, we'll be treated to numerous critiques of our capitalistic economy — for example, that it's "imperfect, unjust, and racist," according to Beto O'Rourke.
Most Dems have yet to go this far. In an MSNBC interview, John Hickenlooper merely balked at three separate opportunities to confirm he is a capitalist. This was a bit bizarre: before entering politics, the former Colorado governor founded Denver's first microbrewery in 1988.
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren offered a tepid endorsement on her way to redirecting, noting that "capitalism without rules is theft." One can think of many principles that are essential to an efficiently functioning market (caveat emptor comes to mind), but rules? Rules define behavior compelled by force or threat of punishment. Perhaps this is what Pete Buttigieg meant by his reference to democratic capitalism? In any event, one sees where this is going.
Clearly, obfuscation is at the heart of politics today. But with Democrats likely to be driven farther left as the primaries approach, it's certain these finely modulated pseudo-endorsements will morph into bald condemnations.
Underlying these critiques are, it seems to me, the resentment and arrogance of the intellectual class. The former is born from the fact that the intellectuals' work product never seems to be much valued in a capitalist economy — at least not to the extent intellectuals would like it to be. The latter presents in several ways, for example an imperial ethos, blind faith in technocracy, and a hubris
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The gubbermint, silly.
(actually my local business rag is filled every week with supposed entrepreneurs whining that the government isn’t doing enough for them...so Fauxahontas is creeping towards being correct apparenty)
HE is right to a certain degree but very ignorant and illiterate in demonstrated in his misstatements.
God through the hands of British Christians gave us the Magna Carta, the printing press, resulting patent law, British Common law thus civilization, all of which necessary building bocks to end up to the industrial revolution , the creation of the free industrialized west and the most “developed” nations called the G7
Marxism and islam will not recognize this which is the root of his education and world.
The ass knew nothing about America but was foisted on us.
And who paid the bucks to build whatever? And more importantly, the left has no clue about who built what. Highways and roads and bridges were built by private businesses that were contracted by the government and paid with tax dollars from the taxpayer.
Obama 11:36
All things come from Government, through Government, and return to Government. Praise it for ever! Yes, it is so!
The ass, as you put it, still knows nothing about his country as far as traveling and Michelle with daughters took to the ski slopes to show they had arrived....
His country was firstly Kenya from which he earned his hate for Britain, the root of the G7, and then secondly Indonesia from which he eared his marxism and islam.
As a muslim, he never was an American let one someone qualified to be president.
I remember being told by west African muslims in 2007(while he was still campaigning) that Islam would rule America through his hands.
Everything, the 800 years of progress that the west has made is antithetical to everything that islam believes.
Business owners hire employees, give them jobs, and pay them out of the capital that business owners own in order to have help.
Tired of having the fruits of their labors confiscated by an overpowering British government, America's Founders declared themselves free and independent. Most American schoolchildren can recite their claim that ". all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ... to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Less familiar, however, are these lines from their Declaration of Independence: "He ( King George III ) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance .... He has combined with others to subject us, ... imposing taxes on us without our consent."What, then, did the Founders consider to be the real cornerstone of man's liberty and happiness? On what basic premise did they devise their Constitution? Let them speak for themselves:
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST"-John Adams
"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort .... This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,... nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has ... is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest."-James MadisonTheir guiding principle was that people come together to form governments in order to SECURE their rights to property - not to create an entity which wilt, itself, "take from the mouths of labor the bread it has earned." What was wrong for individual citizens to do to one another, they believed, was equally wrong for government to do to them. The right to own property and to keep the rewards of individual labor opened the floodgates of progress for the benefit of the entire human race. Millions have fled other countries to participate in the Miracle of America.
Destroying Meritocracy is the end game of all the Democrats.
A homeless drug addict is NOT the same as a brain surgeon.
They cannot accept that.
Destroying Meritocracy is the end game of all the Democrats.
A homeless drug addict is NOT the same as a brain surgeon.
They cannot accept that.
Great line, one worth repeating. Mr. Trump should use it in a campaign speech.
Me thinks the original self determination came out of the Christianity, with the Magna Carta and the reformation redefined it.
Thusly anything to do with the self , self determination and religious goes against both marxism and islam. Both are communalist concepts.
The 7th century attack continues to this day.
You are quite correct, homeless drug addicts make poor brain surgeons.
oops ...
“out of the Christianity”
should read “out of Christianity”
You could swap the name at the bottom for Stalin and “American” for soviet and nobody would blink an eyelid.
The Dummyrats are every bit as extreme as The Bolsheviks of a century ago
And just as bloodthirsty. As all the ostriches in our society are going to discover to their dismay in the not-too-distant future.
Thanks. Yes, the Founders' logical reasoning is not replicated among those who wish to use powers of government to do to their fellow human beings what would be considered criminal acts if they were undertaken between neighbors in the society's communities.
All very well to prattle about democratic socialism - but that does nothing to answer the critique of democracy as “two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner.”
Mind-boggling isn't it?
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