scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
He keeps calling it capitalism but doesn’t add the crucial modifier which makes it all clear. That modifier is crony. All his Fascism examples are of crony capitalism. Do what Mussolini or Hitler wants and you can roll in riches. Disobey them and wind up in the concentration camp. This is just another example of “everything for the state”. When a conservative uses the term capitalism, we mean free-market capitalism. Here every enterprise competes in the open market for success. Bowing one’s head to the state doesn’t ensure success. That success is made in the marketplace of products, services, and ideas, and the consumer of same samples and selects from those that serve him best.
He keeps calling it capitalism but doesn’t add the crucial modifier which makes it all clear. That modifier is crony. All his Fascism examples are of crony capitalism. Do what Mussolini or Hitler wants and you can roll in riches. Disobey them and wind up in the concentration camp. This is just another example of “everything for the state”. When a conservative uses the term capitalism, we mean free-market capitalism. Here every enterprise competes in the open market for success. Bowing one’s head to the state doesn’t ensure success. That success is made in the marketplace of products, services, and ideas, and the consumer of same samples and selects from those that serve him best.
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ReplyDeleteMan. That really cleared things up. Still, I'm with Dinesh D'Souza - and Praeger University.
ReplyDeleteAlso, "Amen!" to JLW III.
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