The free market is indifferent to democracy just as it is
indifferent to the issues of slavery and child labor. It is only in government
that democracy exists.
Do not shop at a store where you would not like to work.
The capitalist model presents the choice between mainstream
news which tells us nothing and the right wing press which tells us how bad the
mainstream media is.
If political ads cause people to turn off their TVs, then
they have accomplished something worthwhile.
Forget for a moment all other indicators, economic, etc. If
we look at the recent trends (say, the last 20 years) we can clearly see a
shift in power. Consistently shifting from the common man to the elite few. Our
vote cannot be trusted to us. Our political candidate must be shielded from
even the softest of questions from real live people. And if a hard question is
dealt a politician, the most banal answers can be given by the politician
without the media calling them on it.
Our foreign policy must be conducted in secret by agencies
and people beyond the reach of voters or public opinion. In short, the
citizenry has been removed from the political process and with it any power
that the populace had over their government. And where can freedom exist where
there is no leverage or power? In the economic sphere, where we can
individually compete against each other, or against giants such as Microsoft,
General Motors or McDonald Douglas. Our best course here it to bow before these
giants, to serve them that they may show favor on us.
If unions had the power some suggest they have, there never
would have been a NAFTA, GAT, or any other free trade agreement, at least not
in the forms they were written. In the years since they were instituted, wages
have stagnated, and union power has fallen precipitously. But of course unions
do not have that kind of power, even with the Democratic Party, as they have
been behind most of those trade agreements.
The genius of the right wing media is that they have
inoculated their audience against phrases such as “drunk the kool-aid”,
“sheeple” and “useful idiots”.
Every major religion understands the concepts of charity,
compassion and helping one’s fellow man. Every religion except capitalism, of
course, which states that not only is greed a virtue rather than a vice, but
that it is the only motivating factor we should trust. And to its god, the
market, it would offer the sacrifice of human life. To curry its favor and
avoid its wrath, we would evict widows from their homes, send children into
factories, our young soldiers to war.
Too often we take for granted our freedoms, forgetting those
who have made the ultimate sacrifice for them. So let us today thank the
children of Sandy Hook who paid the price for our right to bear arms.
The political debate is neatly divided into two camps, the
liberals and conservatives, and any attempt to speak from a different
perspective makes you appear to whoever is listening as belonging to the other
camp.
I don’t care about your politics so much as your commitment
to facts.
The free market is nothing more than the transference of the
law of the jungle to the human sphere.
The answer to job creation is simple: open up our borders so
the increase in workers lowers the cost of labor, making it more affordable to
hire workers. If this is not the answer you want to hear, then maybe we should
be asking a different question.
As in a communist system, where most who live under it are
not philosophically true communists, so too in a capitalist system most of the
citizens are not capitalists. Most merely wish to live their lives and pursue
their professions, whether it be teacher, electrician, etc. Most care more
about family and friends, religion or passions, such as film, music, cars, what
have you.
Being liberal has always been the fashionable choice of
those in the media, but when push comes to shove, they know who writes their
checks.
