Posted on 04/07/2019 7:11:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that capitalism is a potential threat to democracy, even in the United States.
"America is a capitalist society but it has to be a democratic capitalism. That is really important and it is slipping away from us. When capitalism comes into tension with democracy, which is more important?" the South Bend, Ind., mayor said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I believe democracy is more important. When you have capitalism capturing democracy, where you have the kind of regulatory capture where powerful corporations can arrange the rules for their benefit, that's not real capitalism," he added.
Buttigieg used Russia as an example of what happens when capitalism gets out of control. "It turns into crony capitalism and that turns into oligarchy," he said.
Buttigieg argued that his most voters don't want this version of capitalism, noting he received support from people who must have also voted for President Trump based on the vote totals in Indiana.
Buttigieg has roughly 2.3% support, putting him in seventh place among a crowded field of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to RealClearPolitics' average of polls.
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The Butt has spoken.
Could you imagine this fruit and his “spouse” sitting across the table from Putin?
This guy is going places. Not places where any of us want to go, but he’s going places.
Putin would die from laughter.
Hey, Needledick, check out the Clayton Act and the Sherman Act. Both have been around for a while and dealt with those issues. Your ignorance is showing.
No. Democracy is a threat to capitalism.
W.T.F.
is there a single sane rat?
That’s the picture I had in mind.
So he should move to N. korea.
Again I'll repeat, as we all know, we are a Republic, not a democracy. Democrats are idiots.
Dbag. Total dbag
Stupid *and* crazy. Great combination in a leader.
with that remark, he’s finished...
Everything Democrats want to “redistribute” is produced by capitalism.
Every. Last. Thing.
and this doofus is the “moderate” among the Democratic candidates!
Of course, we aren’t a democracy anyways... candidates like him are a far greater threat to the republic
Democracy is a threat to freedom (2 wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner comes to mind.) Capitalism IS Freedom.
Translation: Freedom of the Individual makes Communism hard to impose
Putin wouldn’t give him the time of day, much less sit at the same table with them.
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