Posted on 09/28/2015 1:18:46 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
I guess the next best thing is market economics run poorly with dumb people in power making stupid decisions.....kind of like what we have now with King Barack. Still beats outright socialism...something King Barack wanted but couldn't quite achieve.
Ping.
There is no such thing as “capitalism”.
It is a made up word, invented by Marx to demonize wealth and the wealthy.
The correct term is “a free market economy”.
Not so much back in fashion as he is out of the closet.
The first time I heard anyone proclaim the virtues of Marx was at the U of Chicago (with the same b.s. comment about how ‘wonderful’ communism could be if we just ‘did it right’). The person who said this to me was clearly convinced she was intellectually far beyond me, if not in intrinsic intelligence then at least in her ‘worldliness’.
Obama is President, in part, because he went to Harvard Law school. We, as a society, absolutely buy into the idea that a certain academic pedigree gives credibility. This is of course ridiculous, but is true nonetheless.
This paradigm is shifting. Higher education has become prohibitively expensive for many, and the ability to convey information without a brick and mortar institution (e.g. the internet, etc.) means that control of intellectual discussion and the dissemination of new ideas will cease to be centered on the ‘thought centers’. This bodes well for the world. Diversity of thought and ideas is the real diversity that will help move the world forward - not the narrow vision of diversity that is embraced by the same people who think it's ‘cool’ to try resurrecting the image of Marx.
Damn. That’s great!
Good. Lets give him a good mugging so that he retreats back into the closet.
Only this time we might not win because last time, the United States and her allies had the resolve to fight and defeat the communist plague.
Not so much any more.
Yep, totally agree, we just have to watch out for people like this fool in the WH trying to give control of the net to the “internationalists” obviously to keep the “brick and mortar” idiots in control. There’s an article today about members of Congress trying to stop it, but we have to be careful as we have idiots on both sides in Congress who may well hand it over at the drop of a hat like they did with the Obamacare scam and are in the process of doing it now this Iran nuke “deal” which just blows my mind because once Iran becomes a nuclear power, this world will never be the same. It’s like they are debating whether we should light the fuse that will destroy the world. WHY? Why is there even a debate? Why is there even a “deal”? You cannot make deals with psychopaths no more than you can make a “deal” with a den full of rattlesnakes.
Should make Carly Fiorina happy
There's the old adage, ‘none are so blind as those who refuse to see’. Extrapolating from that, IMHO ‘none are so blind as those who can only see the world through the lens of their own ideology’. I'm sure that in his mind Obama sees himself as an amazing champion of social justice. I think he truly does believe that American arrogance is the root of much of the world's evils, and worries about rectifying this much more than he worries about a nuclear Iran.
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