Can you admit that there have been many many failures in the application of progressive ideology? If you cannot, then there is really no point in arguing. And no, capitalism is not perfect.
But if you prefer free people to domesticated ones, the choice is clear and progressivism will fail then, without force.
You're making the mistake of most Americans: you're confusing capitalism, an economic system, with "freedom," the outcome of a political system. We have been taught and brainwashed to confuse economics with politics. They aren't the same. You CAN have capitalism with totalitarianism. It's been done before.
Can you admit that there have been many many failures in the application of progressive ideology? If you cannot, then there is really no point in arguing. And no, capitalism is not perfect.
But if you prefer free people to domesticated ones, the choice is clear and progressivism will fail then, without force.
You're making the mistake of most Americans: you're confusing capitalism, an economic system, with "freedom," the outcome of a political system. We have been taught and brainwashed to confuse economics with politics. They aren't the same. You CAN have capitalism with totalitarianism. It's been done before.
Where was that done?
Where was communism and "freedom" done together?