Posted on 08/14/2024 4:10:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Big Government and Big Business are two sides of the same coin.
The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives against Big Business. Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the purview of the political left. Conservatives have generally backed “free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for choosing economic winners and losers. Conservative voters have long seen government regulation as more of a threat than Wall Street wheeling and dealing.
This makes sense. American conservatives largely embrace the principles of the Founding Fathers’ laissez-faire liberalism, and many share policy preferences that overlap with today’s self-described libertarians. For conservatives, the left’s “politics of envy” is unappealing. The left’s desire to redistribute private property within some sort of Marxist system is seen as a dangerous impulse toward legalized theft. The left’s love for collectivism over individual freedom is regarded as insidious. Voters who support limited government do not tend to care how Sam Walton became a millionaire. They are much more likely to applaud individual success as the product of hard work and innovation.
Times are changing, though. Over the last forty years, middle-class Americans who put their faith in “free markets” have gotten smacked upside the head by corporate interests time and again. The savings and loan scandal, pension scams, derivatives-juiced market crashes, the housing collapse, the offshoring of good jobs, tech bubbles, predatory lending, reverse mortgages, and countless other corporate schemes have left working-class Americans in dire straits. All of these various gut punches have produced a kind of “awakening” among “live free or die” Americans: “free markets” are an illusion, and the economic game is rigged.
To be clear, freedom-loving Americans of every generation have known that powerful economic interests manipulate markets and take what is not theirs. When private bankers conspired with corrupt congressmen...
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Seems like you have no faith in God.
You do not know me to make such a filthy accusation.
I do not believe God is going to come rescue us sinners from what we have created.
I believe God gave us all his love and talent to make this world heaven or hell. We are clearly heading in one direction.
It would not be the first time that God allowed man to suffer in darkness for generations as a result of mankind's own stupidity.
God is not some White Knight. He is a loving Father who lets his children make their own mistakes and suffer from those mistakes.
It’s not a filthy accusation. Lots of people think they have faith but do not.
When one pushes the liberal gaslighting and fearmongering, it makes one seem like one’s faith is not what they assert it to be, with all due respect.
There are several prophecies where indeed God is the “white knight” and even acts in that capacity prior to Jesus’ coming.
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