From this country’s inception, the rights assigned to the owners of property were the only rights that had the force of law behind them. There was never a time when “Big Corporate” could be distinguished from “Big Government.” In a democratic model, a country where corporate influence is strong, the federal government has to be stronger to be a bulwark on behalf of those without power. Here there has never been a defense of the rabble against corporate heft. Big Corporate = Big Government. Our beloved founders are the ones who forged this arrangement. The primacy of the individual is the core of this extremist concoction.
You wrote that “Wealth accumulation is not inherently Evil, but Suppressing wealth accumulation is Evil..”. When those who accumulate wealth, use it to write the laws and purchase the loyalty of decision-makers, the suppression of wealth is a direct result of the accumulation of wealth. So permitting and promoting and celebrating the accumulation of wealth as “evidence” of the genius of the liberal-capitalist model, but it is really the proof that America has fascist yearning in its blood.
That was FDR's pitch, Comrade. Look at DC today to see how wonderful Big Government has turned out. I also made no pitch for Big Corporate either, only for Individual Rights.
You may prefer Government Rights, but whomever is the Controlling Factor, Will Control YOU as well.
Isn’t it curious how the system that preaches freedom of the individual requires a massive military machine that swallows up citizen’s taxes, destroys fragile components of the global ecology, and, oh yeah, deprives the nations and peoples incapable of defending themselves of the means to survive with dignity. Welcome to the 22nd Century. The deification of the individual is clearly the ideology that is the gifter of perpetual war, the rise in fascism across the planet and the mentality that grips a nation of misinformed, angry voters who are at their wits’ end.
But he'll tell you that the current system is not the one that practices the freedom of individual, just preaches it. He'll use "comrade" to stress his point, too.
That such a system is a fantasy doesn't bother him.
and you keep telling people "Real" Socialism-Marxism hasn't been "perfected" yet. Perfection is unobtainable but millions have been slaughtered in it's quest by the Humanists under many "Ism's"
Individual Capitalism leads to innovation, new products, and yes Profits. In the former Soviet Union the joke was "They pretended to pay us, and We pretended to work". That surely is a model for Your "Success". Comrade.
I wasn't addressing the War Wachine directly before, but it seems apparent to anyone with half a noodle that the Pantygone is Big Government and joined with Big Corp. I was Anti-War before you were born most likely. You have no idea how Big Gov can crush an Individual. Your love of Big Gov will eventually put you in the Gulag but your hubris prevents knowing history like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Comrade UW
From this country’s inception, the rights assigned to the owners of property were the only rights that had the force of law behind them. There was never a time when “Big Corporate” could be distinguished from “Big Government.” In a democratic model, a country where corporate influence is strong, the federal government has to be stronger to be a bulwark on behalf of those without power. Here there has never been a defense of the rabble against corporate heft. Big Corporate = Big Government. Our beloved founders are the ones who forged this arrangement. The primacy of the individual is the core of this extremist concoction.
You wrote that “Wealth accumulation is not inherently Evil, but Suppressing wealth accumulation is Evil..”. When those who accumulate wealth, use it to write the laws and purchase the loyalty of decision-makers, the suppression of wealth is a direct result of the accumulation of wealth. So permitting and promoting and celebrating the accumulation of wealth as “evidence” of the genius of the liberal-capitalist model, but it is really the proof that America has fascist yearning in its blood.
https://mronline.org/2022/10/31/liberal-democracy/
That was FDR's pitch, Comrade. Look at DC today to see how wonderful Big Government has turned out. I also made no pitch for Big Corporate either, only for Individual Rights.
You may prefer Government Rights, but whomever is the Controlling Factor, Will Control YOU as well.
Isn’t it curious how the system that preaches freedom of the individual requires a massive military machine that swallows up citizen’s taxes, destroys fragile components of the global ecology, and, oh yeah, deprives the nations and peoples incapable of defending themselves of the means to survive with dignity. Welcome to the 22nd Century. The deification of the individual is clearly the ideology that is the gifter of perpetual war, the rise in fascism across the planet and the mentality that grips a nation of misinformed, angry voters who are at their wits’ end.
But he'll tell you that the current system is not the one that practices the freedom of individual, just preaches it. He'll use "comrade" to stress his point, too.
That such a system is a fantasy doesn't bother him.
and you keep telling people "Real" Socialism-Marxism hasn't been "perfected" yet. Perfection is unobtainable but millions have been slaughtered in it's quest by the Humanists under many "Ism's"
Individual Capitalism leads to innovation, new products, and yes Profits. In the former Soviet Union the joke was "They pretended to pay us, and We pretended to work". That surely is a model for Your "Success". Comrade.
I wasn't addressing the War Wachine directly before, but it seems apparent to anyone with half a noodle that the Pantygone is Big Government and joined with Big Corp. I was Anti-War before you were born most likely. You have no idea how Big Gov can crush an Individual. Your love of Big Gov will eventually put you in the Gulag but your hubris prevents knowing history like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Comrade UW
I read and recommend your thoughtful essay. Thank you.